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" 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. "

Frank Abagnale

Need

Today

" I have never witnessed, nor will I live long enough to witness, a more simplistic crime than me stealing your identity. "

" I was always accepted at par value. I wore the uniform of a Pan Am pilot; therefore, I must be a Pan Am pilot. "

Frank Abagnale

Pilot

Always

" It's about taking the time to research and think things out. Honest people and criminals do the same thing; just the direction, good or bad, is different. "

" You should know, whether you live in the U.S. or in the U.K., that your identity has already been stolen. "

" Everything I have today was because of the love of a woman. "

" 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. "

" We're coming down to an extremely unethical society. Very few colleges offer courses in ethics, and very few companies have a code of conduct or code of ethics. "

" We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely. "

" There's no such thing as a foolproof system. That idea fails to take into account the creativity of fools. "

" Only one thing makes a man a man. He loves his wife, is faithful to her, and puts his wife and kids as the most important things in life. "

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

" If I had walked into a dry cleaning store, and I had looked over, and the register drawer was open with money inside, I wouldn't have taken it. "

" If you happen to tell me where you were born, your date of birth and that kind of information, then I'm 98 percent of the way to stealing your identity. "

" 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. "

" I speak at a lot of universities, and people are always worried about Facebook, and when I explain how to use it properly, they immediately go back and make those changes. "

" I'm glad I'm a draw. People know that, not only am I the guy that did it, I spent 40 years on the other side. "

" 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. "

" When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21. "

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

" If I had the uniform on, you didn't doubt for a moment I was a pilot. No one ever blinked an eye if I tried to cash a cheque wearing that uniform. "

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

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

" I served my time and came out of prison when I was just 26 and have worked with the government for 37 years. But people only remember me for what I did before that. "

Frank Abagnale

Remember

Time

" I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses your information, they are stealing the bank's money, not yours. "

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

Frank Abagnale

Believe

Take

" 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. "

" A lot of times, when I met somebody and took them out on a date, I obviously didn't tell them my background, because I didn't think I'd see them but once or twice. "

" We should be very concerned: if identity theft is so simple to do, what's to stop me from entering this country and assuming the identity of someone else for the sole purpose of living here illegally for terrorist reasons? That alone would be a concern. "

" If I check into a hotel, a lot of times, they know who I am. "