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" I always knew I'd get caught sooner or later. And I knew I would end up going to prison. "
Frank Abagnale
Always
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Up
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" Mostly, cybercriminals are motivated to commit crime for financial gain. "
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" If I had been brilliant or a genius, I wouldn't have needed to break the law just to survive. "
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" The Internet is a wonderful thing, but it opens the door to many crimes, so you have to stay ahead of it. "
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" A real man loves and respects his wife and is not only a good father but a man that his kids want to call 'Daddy.' "
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" 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. "
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" If I check into a hotel, a lot of times, they know who I am. "
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" You cannot rely on the police, you cannot rely on the government, you cannot rely on the bank to protect you. "
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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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People
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" I learned early that class is universally admired. "
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Early
Learned
Admired
" When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21. "
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Look
Amazed
Back
" It's quite flattering to have Leonardo DiCaprio play you in the movie. He's a great-looking young man. "
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Young Man
Young
Man
" You should know, whether you live in the U.S. or in the U.K., that your identity has already been stolen. "
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Live
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Your
" I went from 198 pounds to 109 while I was in prison in France, and I had to tie my clothes on with rope. "
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Prison
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" I have to be honest with you: When the FBI let me out of prison early to advise the agency on preventing fraud, I wasn't a changed person. I wasn't rehabilitated. But when I started working with the FBI, one of the most ethical groups of men and women in the world, I couldn't help but have some of that character rub off on me. "
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Men
Character
Help
" There are many ways to manipulate chip cards. For example, a number of years ago when American Express issued the first chip card, criminals would take a small hammer with a little device and bang the chip to destroy it without hurting the physical appearance of the card. "
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Cards
American
Appearance
" I don't do online banking. "
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Online
Banking
" You can sit in a room and create anything you want on a laptop. That's why the real con men are gone. "
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Create
Real
Want
" My father was never really the con-man type that the film shows him to be: he was straight as an arrow, though he did have problems with the IRS. "
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Never
Problems
Father
" I taught at the FBI for four decades - how to think outside of the box and deal with social engineering. "
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Engineering
Box
Outside
" The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter and there's nothing wrong with being skeptical. We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will. "
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People
Time
Police
" 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. "
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My Life
Old
Life
" I have never witnessed, nor will I live long enough to witness, a more simplistic crime than me stealing your identity. "
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Live
Crime
Enough
" I owe a debt to my country 800 times greater than I could ever repay. "
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Country
Repay
Greater
" In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away. "
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Real
People
Good
" I would have thought technology would have made it harder to do what I did. "
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Thought
Did
Made
" I use a credit card for everything - and I choose one of the ones which gives you money back. "
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Use
Money
Back
" 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. "
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People
Death
" People say that life is short, but it isn't short. It's very long. "
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Long
Life Is Short
Life
" I didn't like taking money from individuals. "
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Money
Taking
Individuals