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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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" 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. "

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" Christopher Walken and Nathalie Baye played my parents so well that I really thought I was in my living room at Christmas. My mother couldn't have been played more correctly. "

" 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.' "

" There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering. "

" 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. "

" Whether you're earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it's very important to protect your credit rating. "

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

" I don't do online banking. "

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" You have to be smarter and a wiser businessperson and consumer. You have to learn to protect yourself through education. "

" In all the years I've taught at the FBI Academy, I've only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect. "

" 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. "

" It's quite flattering to have Leonardo DiCaprio play you in the movie. He's a great-looking young man. "

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

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" The law sometimes sleeps; it never dies. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" Most people don't reconcile their bank accounts. "

" Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular. "

" Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to be liable for it. Banks don't look at signatures. They're processing millions of checks and they have very little liability. "

" Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively. "

" Had I been older - maybe 25 or 30 - I would have never tried half the things I did because I would have rationalized everything and never did it. "

" I think my wife understood from the day I met her how important she was to me and how important it was for me becoming a husband and a father. "

" 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. "