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" If you tell me your name and date of birth, that's all I need to steal your identity. "

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" You should know, whether you live in the U.S. or in the U.K., that your identity has already been stolen. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" You have to think a little smarter, be proactive, not reactive. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I owe a debt to my country 800 times greater than I could ever repay. "

" I kept a notebook, a surreptitious journal in which I jotted down phrases, technical data, miscellaneous information, names, dates, places, telephone numbers, thoughts, and a collection of other data I thought was necessary or might prove helpful. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I use a shredder for bank statements and phone bills. Most people use ribbon shredders that cut things straight: we can put those back together in an hour. Look for a security microcut shredder, which cuts papers into confetti. "

" The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity. "

" Whether you're earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it's very important to protect your credit rating. "

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

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

" 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. "

" You fight technology with technology, so you have to stay one step ahead of the criminal. It's very much a chess game - they make a move, you have to make a move. "

" It is amazing the information we give away. We make it easier and easier for criminals. "

" I don't do online banking. "

" I'm glad I'm a draw. People know that, not only am I the guy that did it, I spent 40 years on the other side. "

" One thing I've found is that if you educate and show people the risk, they will do something about it. "