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" I didn't sit outside the bank and plan. I just went in and ad libbed because I was so young. But I was smart enough to know I would absolutely get caught. "

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

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

" I was a millionaire twice over and half again before I was twenty-one. I stole every nickel of it and blew the bulk of the bundle on fine threads, gourmet foods, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, fine wheels, and other sensual goodies. "

" Most people don't recognize me, but they know my name. TSA people rarely recognize my name, ironically, and they are the security people. "

" At the FBI, very rarely do they investigate crime under $100,000. "

" You have to be very limited in who you give your social security number to. "

" I went to the library and learned how checks work. I found out that routing numbers are like zip codes: the checks are sent to the bank that correlates to the routing number. If I manipulate those numbers to a bank far away, it would take longer to get back to the bank, which gave me more time to write more bad checks. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" When 'Catch Me If You Can' was published back in 1980, I never dreamed that it would become a bestseller, much less a major motion picture and now a big Broadway musical. What's amazing about the book is that it has never gone out of print. "

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

" 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.' "

" The biggest thing that concerns me is when we start getting countries using cybercrime to shut down infrastructure, electricity, communications systems, the Internet, et cetera. "

" 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. "

" One of the most popular scams is what they call account takeover. You write me a check, and I simply go online to a check-printing service and order 200 checks with your account information. "

" By the time I had reached the age of 16, in the 10th grade, my parents, after 22 years of marriage, one day decided to get a divorce. "

" 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. "

" The Internet can be used to hurt many people. "

" The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity. "

" A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father. "

" I taught at the FBI for four decades - how to think outside of the box and deal with social engineering. "

" 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.' "

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

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

" The Internet is a wonderful thing, but it opens the door to many crimes, so you have to stay ahead of it. "

" I'm so different from the egotistical, self-centred person I was when I did those things. And to watch someone acting out your memories on the screen is like reliving it. Like someone taking you back and showing you what you did. "