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" 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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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" When people write about me, they usually start off with the headline 'World's Greatest Con Man.' "

" I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" One thing I've found is that if you educate and show people the risk, they will do something about it. "

" 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 was very blessed it was Steven Spielberg who made the movie. He was very much into the redemption side of the story. They asked him in an interview why he had owned the rights to this story for 20 years before he made the movie, and he said, 'I wanted to see what the real Frank Abagnale did with his life before I immortalised him on film.' "

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

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

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

" I wasn't a Pan Am pilot or any other kind of pilot. "

" I don't do online banking. "

" People care about others in their immediate network. "

" If you look at any successful professional - a salesperson, a marketer, a real estate agent, a trader - they all have the same qualities as the con man. The only difference is that one side uses their talents in the right direction and the con man is taking the easy way out. "

" I know that people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but what I did was immoral, illegal, unethical, and something that I am not proud of - nor will I ever be proud of. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Mostly, cybercriminals are motivated to commit crime for financial gain. "