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