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" 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. "

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" I think my wife understood from the day I met her how important she was to me and how important it was for me becoming a husband and a father. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" People have found very significant and simple ways to cheat their employer and get money out of their employers, and many companies lack good internal controls. "

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

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" The law sometimes sleeps; it never dies. "

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

" 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. "

" I learned early that class is universally admired. "

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

" 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. "

" Most people don't recognize me, but they know my name. TSA people rarely recognize my name, ironically, and they are the security people. "

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" Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. "

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

" I use a credit card for everything - and I choose one of the ones which gives you money back. "

" While I was on an undercover assignment in Texas, I met my wife, Kelly. "

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

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

" 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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" 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. "

" I'm so different from the egotistical, self-centred person I was when I did those things. And to watch someone acting out your memories on the screen is like reliving it. Like someone taking you back and showing you what you did. "

" 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.' "

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

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

" People say that life is short, but it isn't short. It's very long. "

" Airline pilots are men to be admired and respected. Men to be trusted. Men of means. And you don't expect an airline pilot to be a local resident. Or a check swindler. "