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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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" The truth is, your identity already has been stolen. "

" People care about others in their immediate network. "

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

" I have never witnessed, nor will I live long enough to witness, a more simplistic crime than me stealing your identity. "

" 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. "

" I was always accepted at par value. I wore the uniform of a Pan Am pilot; therefore, I must be a Pan Am pilot. "

" It's amazing how much information we share in social media, then we wonder why people steal our identity. "

" When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21. "

" Had I been older - maybe 25 or 30 - I would have never tried half the things I did because I would have rationalized everything and never did it. "

" We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Most people don't reconcile their bank accounts. "

" 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.' "

" By the time I had reached the age of 16, in the 10th grade, my parents, after 22 years of marriage, one day decided to get a divorce. "

" I always knew I'd get caught sooner or later. And I knew I would end up going to prison. "

" I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I wasn't a Pan Am pilot or any other kind of pilot. "

" 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. "

" You have to be smarter and a wiser businessperson and consumer. You have to learn to protect yourself through education. "

" One of the most popular scams is what they call account takeover. You write me a check, and I simply go online to a check-printing service and order 200 checks with your account information. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I taught at the FBI for four decades - how to think outside of the box and deal with social engineering. "

" Every case involving cybercrime that I've been involved in, I've never found a master criminal sitting somewhere in Russia or Hong Kong or Beijing. It always ends up that somebody at the company did something they weren't supposed to do. They read an email, went to a website they weren't supposed to. "