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" I would have thought technology would have made it harder to do what I did. "
Frank Abagnale
Thought
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" I served my time and came out of prison when I was just 26 and have worked with the government for 37 years. But people only remember me for what I did before that. "
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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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" I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons. "
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" Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there's a touch of class involved. "
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" I taught at the FBI for four decades - how to think outside of the box and deal with social engineering. "
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" 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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" I know that people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but what I did was immoral, illegal, unethical, and something that I am not proud of - nor will I ever be proud of. "
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" I speak at a lot of universities, and people are always worried about Facebook, and when I explain how to use it properly, they immediately go back and make those changes. "
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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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" We buy into the computer, and everything that comes from the computer, we believe to be the truth. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. "
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Looking
Win
" We're coming down to an extremely unethical society. Very few colleges offer courses in ethics, and very few companies have a code of conduct or code of ethics. "
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Coming
Ethics
Society
" You get to a point in your life where you go, 'I don't remember what I did.' "
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Remember
Point
Life
" I always knew I'd get caught sooner or later. And I knew I would end up going to prison. "
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Always
Going
Up
" 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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" 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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Today
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" It's amazing how much information we share in social media, then we wonder why people steal our identity. "
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People
Social Media
Amazing
" 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
" 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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" People say that life is short, but it isn't short. It's very long. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Always
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" If I had been brilliant or a genius, I wouldn't have needed to break the law just to survive. "
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" We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely. "
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