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" I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons. "
Frank Abagnale
Prison
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" I teach ethics at the FBI academy, which is ironic. "
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" Everything I have today was because of the love of a woman. "
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" Every breach you look at occurred because somebody inside did something they weren't supposed to do. Sometimes there's an accomplice, but most of the time, it's innocent. "
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" 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.' "
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" 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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" There's no such thing as a foolproof system. That idea fails to take into account the creativity of fools. "
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" People say that life is short, but it isn't short. It's very long. "
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" 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.' "
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" Unlike most divorces, where the children were usually the first to know, my parents were very good about keeping that a secret. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" We buy into the computer, and everything that comes from the computer, we believe to be the truth. "
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" You have to be smarter and a wiser businessperson and consumer. You have to learn to protect yourself through education. "
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" I don't believe that a piece of paper will excuse my actions. In the end, only my actions will. "
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" A lot of people say I was brilliant. I wasn't. I was an opportunist: a young entrepreneur who saw things and took advantage. "
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" 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. "
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" We really need to get control over Social Security numbers. My children's generation, they're past it. But their children should be able to have a number that is secure. "
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" You have to believe in what you do. Take something you truly believe in and go about it in an honest way. "
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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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