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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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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" If you tell me your name and date of birth, that's all I need to steal your identity. "

" I owe a debt to my country 800 times greater than I could ever repay. "

" A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" I think I was so successful, not because I was brilliant, but because I was so young. I had no fear of consequences. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I use a shredder for bank statements and phone bills. Most people use ribbon shredders that cut things straight: we can put those back together in an hour. Look for a security microcut shredder, which cuts papers into confetti. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When 'Catch Me If You Can' was published back in 1980, I never dreamed that it would become a bestseller, much less a major motion picture and now a big Broadway musical. What's amazing about the book is that it has never gone out of print. "

" My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent. "

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

" If I had been brilliant or a genius, I wouldn't have needed to break the law just to survive. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" As the lawyer, I found most of it was a matter of research, which I was great at - that's what I did to death - and then basically persuading people that you're right, and they're wrong... I found that the easiest of all the professions to impersonate. "

" 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. "