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" 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. "

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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. "

Frank Abagnale

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" People say that life is short, but it isn't short. It's very long. "

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

" 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. "

" The truth is, your identity already has been stolen. "

" I partied in every capital in Europe, basked on all the famous beaches, and good-timed it in South America, the South Seas, the Orient, and the more palatable portions of Africa. "

Frank Abagnale

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You fight technology with technology, so you have to stay one step ahead of the criminal. It's very much a chess game - they make a move, you have to make a move. "

" 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. "

" The law sometimes sleeps; it never dies. "

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

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

" You cannot rely on the police, you cannot rely on the government, you cannot rely on the bank to protect you. "

" I was just a guy who ran away from home at 16 because my parents were getting a divorce and the judge was making me choose which parent to live with. I didn't want to make that choice. I ended up in New York City. "

" 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. "

" While I was on an undercover assignment in Texas, I met my wife, Kelly. "

" It's amazing to me that we live in such a wonderful country where anyone can have a problem in life and get up, dust themselves off and start all over again. "

" What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime. "

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

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