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" My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent. "

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" 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

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" 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. "

" Everything I have today was because of the love of a woman. "

" Most people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but when I look back at my life, I don't think very much about those years. I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life. "

" Unlike most divorces, where the children were usually the first to know, my parents were very good about keeping that a secret. "

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

" A lot of people say I was brilliant. I wasn't. I was an opportunist: a young entrepreneur who saw things and took advantage. "

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

" When I was 28 years old, I thought it would be great to have a movie about my life. I was egotistical and self-centered. "

" 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. "

" I don't do online banking. "

Frank Abagnale

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Banking

" You cannot rely on the police, you cannot rely on the government, you cannot rely on the bank to protect you. "

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The Internet can be used to hurt many people. "

" I speak at a lot of universities, and people are always worried about Facebook, and when I explain how to use it properly, they immediately go back and make those changes. "

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

" I went from 198 pounds to 109 while I was in prison in France, and I had to tie my clothes on with rope. "

" What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime. "

" As the lawyer, I found most of it was a matter of research, which I was great at - that's what I did to death - and then basically persuading people that you're right, and they're wrong... I found that the easiest of all the professions to impersonate. "

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

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

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

" You get to a point in your life where you go, 'I don't remember what I did.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Criminals know that if they stay under certain thresholds, nobody is going to come after them. "