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" If I check into a hotel, a lot of times, they know who I am. "
Frank Abagnale
Who
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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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" Criminals know that if they stay under certain thresholds, nobody is going to come after them. "
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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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" I don't do online banking. "
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" 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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You
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" I would have thought technology would have made it harder to do what I did. "
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Thought
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" I was always accepted at par value. I wore the uniform of a Pan Am pilot; therefore, I must be a Pan Am pilot. "
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" It is amazing the information we give away. We make it easier and easier for criminals. "
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Give
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" When people write about me, they usually start off with the headline 'World's Greatest Con Man.' "
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World
Me
" You should know, whether you live in the U.S. or in the U.K., that your identity has already been stolen. "
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" My father was never really the con-man type that the film shows him to be: he was straight as an arrow, though he did have problems with the IRS. "
Frank Abagnale
Never
Problems
Father
" I don't believe that a piece of paper will excuse my actions. In the end, only my actions will. "
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End
Believe
Will
" 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
" The law sometimes sleeps; it never dies. "
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Law
Never
Sleeps
" 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
" 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
" 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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Innocent
Look
You
" 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. "
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Important
Life
Man
" The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity. "
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Enough
Alone
Information
" 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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Memories
Back
You
" I make my home in Tulsa. "
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Make
Home
" What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime. "
Frank Abagnale
Crime
Youth
Easier
" Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. "
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Always
Looking
Win
" 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
My Life
" 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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People
Things
Say
" I went from 198 pounds to 109 while I was in prison in France, and I had to tie my clothes on with rope. "
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Rope
Prison
Tie
" 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. "
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Life
Prison
People
" The Internet is a wonderful thing, but it opens the door to many crimes, so you have to stay ahead of it. "
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Door
Wonderful
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. "
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City
Parents
New York
" You cannot rely on the police, you cannot rely on the government, you cannot rely on the bank to protect you. "
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Government
Police
Bank