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" If I had walked into a dry cleaning store, and I had looked over, and the register drawer was open with money inside, I wouldn't have taken it. "
Frank Abagnale
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Dry
Over
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" I'm a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so I'm never tempted or put in a position where I could do something to defraud my employer. "
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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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" There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering. "
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" You have to be smarter and a wiser businessperson and consumer. You have to learn to protect yourself through education. "
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" 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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" It's quite flattering to have Leonardo DiCaprio play you in the movie. He's a great-looking young man. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" Everything I have today was because of the love of a woman. "
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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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" When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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Look
You
" Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there's a touch of class involved. "
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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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Born
" There's no such thing as a foolproof system. That idea fails to take into account the creativity of fools. "
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System
Creativity
Fools
" 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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Smart
Know
Plan
" It is amazing the information we give away. We make it easier and easier for criminals. "
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Information
Give
Easier
" I don't do online banking. "
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Online
Banking
" 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. "
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Great
Risks
Identity
" We buy into the computer, and everything that comes from the computer, we believe to be the truth. "
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Truth
Everything
" 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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" If I wanted to lay down a baby con, I could say I was the product of a broken home. But I'd only be bum-rapping my parents. "
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Home
Parents
Baby
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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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" 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. "
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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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Age
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" 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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