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" I wasn't a Pan Am pilot or any other kind of pilot. "
Frank Abagnale
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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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" 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. "
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Information
Me
Go
" 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. "
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More
Europe
Africa
" It is amazing the information we give away. We make it easier and easier for criminals. "
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Information
Give
Easier
" I'm glad I'm a draw. People know that, not only am I the guy that did it, I spent 40 years on the other side. "
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Years
Guy
Know
" 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. "
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Away
Got
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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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Cards
American
Appearance
" 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. "
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Things
Older
Never
" If you happen to tell me where you were born, your date of birth and that kind of information, then I'm 98 percent of the way to stealing your identity. "
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Information
Identity
Born
" 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. "
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My Life
Old
Life
" I would have thought technology would have made it harder to do what I did. "
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Thought
Did
Made
" Too many of us are vulnerable, and I look forward to working with AARP to advise people about the safest ways to conduct their financial transactions and manage social media. "
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People
Financial
Media
" 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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Men
Character
Help
" In all the years I've taught at the FBI Academy, I've only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect. "
Frank Abagnale
Seen
Years
Only
" I didn't like taking money from individuals. "
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Money
Taking
Individuals
" I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons. "
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Prison
Years
Prisons
" If I had the uniform on, you didn't doubt for a moment I was a pilot. No one ever blinked an eye if I tried to cash a cheque wearing that uniform. "
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Moment
Eye
Pilot
" Every form of payment has some risk associated with it. "
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Every
Some
Payment
" 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.' "
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What If
Been
Death
" 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.' "
Frank Abagnale
Credit
You
Police
" I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses your information, they are stealing the bank's money, not yours. "
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Information
You
Money
" 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. "
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Out
Simple
People
" 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. "
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Think
Day
Father
" I never use debit cards. I only use credit cards. This way, if someone does get my account number... and charges $1 million, by federal law, my liability is zero. "
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Law
Credit
Never
" When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21. "
Frank Abagnale
Look
Amazed
Back
" 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. "
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Website
Always
Company
" 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. "
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Time
Age
Day
" 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. "
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Mistake
Something
Order
" There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering. "
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Today
Defeated
Technology
" It's quite flattering to have Leonardo DiCaprio play you in the movie. He's a great-looking young man. "
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Young Man
Young
Man