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" It's quite flattering to have Leonardo DiCaprio play you in the movie. He's a great-looking young man. "
Frank Abagnale
Young Man
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" The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter and there's nothing wrong with being skeptical. We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will. "
Frank Abagnale
People
Time
Police
" 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. "
Frank Abagnale
Information
Identity
Born
" I don't do online banking. "
Frank Abagnale
Online
Banking
" We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely. "
Frank Abagnale
Changes
Age
Grow
" 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. "
Frank Abagnale
Time
Age
Day
" Too many of us are vulnerable, and I look forward to working with AARP to advise people about the safest ways to conduct their financial transactions and manage social media. "
Frank Abagnale
People
Financial
Media
" 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. "
Frank Abagnale
People
Together
Security
" 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. "
Frank Abagnale
Information
You
Money
" I was always accepted at par value. I wore the uniform of a Pan Am pilot; therefore, I must be a Pan Am pilot. "
Frank Abagnale
Pilot
Always
Am
" If you look at any successful professional - a salesperson, a marketer, a real estate agent, a trader - they all have the same qualities as the con man. The only difference is that one side uses their talents in the right direction and the con man is taking the easy way out. "
Frank Abagnale
Man
Look
You
" I think I was so successful, not because I was brilliant, but because I was so young. I had no fear of consequences. "
Frank Abagnale
Fear
Think
Successful
" You should know, whether you live in the U.S. or in the U.K., that your identity has already been stolen. "
Frank Abagnale
Live
Identity
Your
" When people ask me about being portrayed onscreen by Leonardo DiCaprio, I always say, 'I love it - no matter how old I get, people are going to think that's what I look like.' "
Frank Abagnale
Look
People
Think
" In all the years I've taught at the FBI Academy, I've only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect. "
Frank Abagnale
Seen
Years
Only
" I have to be honest with you: When the FBI let me out of prison early to advise the agency on preventing fraud, I wasn't a changed person. I wasn't rehabilitated. But when I started working with the FBI, one of the most ethical groups of men and women in the world, I couldn't help but have some of that character rub off on me. "
Frank Abagnale
Men
Character
Help
" If I had the uniform on, you didn't doubt for a moment I was a pilot. No one ever blinked an eye if I tried to cash a cheque wearing that uniform. "
Frank Abagnale
Moment
Eye
Pilot
" I use a credit card for everything - and I choose one of the ones which gives you money back. "
Frank Abagnale
Use
Money
Back
" It's amazing to me that we live in such a wonderful country where anyone can have a problem in life and get up, dust themselves off and start all over again. "
Frank Abagnale
Start
Amazing
Problem
" 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. "
Frank Abagnale
Twice
Wheels
Sensual
" 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. "
Frank Abagnale
Real
People
Good
" When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21. "
Frank Abagnale
Look
Amazed
Back
" Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively. "
Frank Abagnale
Crime
Trying
Step
" I didn't like taking money from individuals. "
Frank Abagnale
Money
Taking
Individuals
" If you tell me your name and date of birth, that's all I need to steal your identity. "
Frank Abagnale
Birth
You
Need
" It's really frustrating when you're an identity-theft victim, and you go to the police and you say, 'This guy in Florida, he stole my name and got a credit card - this is his address,' and they say, 'We don't have jurisdiction in Florida. You need to go to the FBI.' "
Frank Abagnale
Credit
You
Police
" I owe a debt to my country 800 times greater than I could ever repay. "
Frank Abagnale
Country
Repay
Greater
" Most people don't recognize me, but they know my name. TSA people rarely recognize my name, ironically, and they are the security people. "
Frank Abagnale
Me
Security
People
" It's amazing how much information we share in social media, then we wonder why people steal our identity. "
Frank Abagnale
People
Social Media
Amazing
" 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. "
Frank Abagnale
Library
Work
Time
" We buy into the computer, and everything that comes from the computer, we believe to be the truth. "
Frank Abagnale
Believe
Truth
Everything