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" Criminals know that if they stay under certain thresholds, nobody is going to come after them. "

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" Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular. "

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" You fight technology with technology, so you have to stay one step ahead of the criminal. It's very much a chess game - they make a move, you have to make a move. "

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" You have to believe in what you do. Take something you truly believe in and go about it in an honest way. "

" I'm a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so I'm never tempted or put in a position where I could do something to defraud my employer. "

" What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime. "

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" It's amazing how much information we share in social media, then we wonder why people steal our identity. "

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