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" Every breach you look at occurred because somebody inside did something they weren't supposed to do. Sometimes there's an accomplice, but most of the time, it's innocent. "

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" As the lawyer, I found most of it was a matter of research, which I was great at - that's what I did to death - and then basically persuading people that you're right, and they're wrong... I found that the easiest of all the professions to impersonate. "

Frank Abagnale

Lawyer

People

Death

" We buy into the computer, and everything that comes from the computer, we believe to be the truth. "

" Had I been older, I would've never been able to pull it off because I would've analyzed it to death. When I was 16, there was no such thing as 'what if.' "

" If you took a child in London and took their iPhone and took them somewhere else in the country, they'd probably not be able to find their way back. That's a shame. "

" I use a credit card for everything - and I choose one of the ones which gives you money back. "

" 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. "

" My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent. "

" People care about others in their immediate network. "

" Every case involving cybercrime that I've been involved in, I've never found a master criminal sitting somewhere in Russia or Hong Kong or Beijing. It always ends up that somebody at the company did something they weren't supposed to do. They read an email, went to a website they weren't supposed to. "

" You can sit in a room and create anything you want on a laptop. That's why the real con men are gone. "

" You get to a point in your life where you go, 'I don't remember what I did.' "

" You cannot rely on the police, you cannot rely on the government, you cannot rely on the bank to protect you. "

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

" We really need to get control over Social Security numbers. My children's generation, they're past it. But their children should be able to have a number that is secure. "

" If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'. "

Frank Abagnale

Bad

Been

" People have found very significant and simple ways to cheat their employer and get money out of their employers, and many companies lack good internal controls. "

" Most people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but when I look back at my life, I don't think very much about those years. I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life. "

" I would have thought technology would have made it harder to do what I did. "

" I didn't like taking money from individuals. "

" I contend that there really are no more con men. There's no need for con men anymore. There's no need for the very sophisticated, suave guy, the well-dressed guy. Today, you steal with the computer from thousands of miles away - from China, from Libya, from Hong Kong. Your victim's never going to see you, so there's no need to be any of that. "

" I went from 198 pounds to 109 while I was in prison in France, and I had to tie my clothes on with rope. "

" I think I was so successful, not because I was brilliant, but because I was so young. I had no fear of consequences. "

" If I wanted to lay down a baby con, I could say I was the product of a broken home. But I'd only be bum-rapping my parents. "

" When I was 28 years old, I thought it would be great to have a movie about my life. I was egotistical and self-centered. "

" I kept a notebook, a surreptitious journal in which I jotted down phrases, technical data, miscellaneous information, names, dates, places, telephone numbers, thoughts, and a collection of other data I thought was necessary or might prove helpful. "

" It's really frustrating when you're an identity-theft victim, and you go to the police and you say, 'This guy in Florida, he stole my name and got a credit card - this is his address,' and they say, 'We don't have jurisdiction in Florida. You need to go to the FBI.' "

" I make my home in Tulsa. "

Frank Abagnale

Make

Home

" Too many of us are vulnerable, and I look forward to working with AARP to advise people about the safest ways to conduct their financial transactions and manage social media. "

" When people ask me about being portrayed onscreen by Leonardo DiCaprio, I always say, 'I love it - no matter how old I get, people are going to think that's what I look like.' "

" I use a shredder for bank statements and phone bills. Most people use ribbon shredders that cut things straight: we can put those back together in an hour. Look for a security microcut shredder, which cuts papers into confetti. "