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" My father was never really the con-man type that the film shows him to be: he was straight as an arrow, though he did have problems with the IRS. "
Frank Abagnale
Never
Problems
Father
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" 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. "
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" Every form of payment has some risk associated with it. "
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" You cannot rely on the police, you cannot rely on the government, you cannot rely on the bank to protect you. "
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" 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. "
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" Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively. "
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" I don't believe that a piece of paper will excuse my actions. In the end, only my actions will. "
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" 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. "
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" I didn't like taking money from individuals. "
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" One thing I've found is that if you educate and show people the risk, they will do something about it. "
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" Everything I have today was because of the love of a woman. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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Picture
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" Mostly, cybercriminals are motivated to commit crime for financial gain. "
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Gain
Financial
" You have to believe in what you do. Take something you truly believe in and go about it in an honest way. "
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Go
Believe
Take
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Money
Back
" 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. "
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Older
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Alone
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" 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. "
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