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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. "
Frank Abagnale
Crime
Trying
Step
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" A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Work
Time
" People care about others in their immediate network. "
Frank Abagnale
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Network
Care
" 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. "
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Start
Amazing
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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. "
Frank Abagnale
Will
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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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" 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. "
Frank Abagnale
Think
Day
Father
" When people write about me, they usually start off with the headline 'World's Greatest Con Man.' "
Frank Abagnale
People
World
Me
" I have never witnessed, nor will I live long enough to witness, a more simplistic crime than me stealing your identity. "
Frank Abagnale
Live
Crime
Enough
" Most people don't reconcile their bank accounts. "
Frank Abagnale
Reconcile
Bank
Accounts
" 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
" In all the years I've taught at the FBI Academy, I've only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect. "
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Seen
Years
Only
" Mostly, cybercriminals are motivated to commit crime for financial gain. "
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Motivated
Gain
Financial
" You can sit in a room and create anything you want on a laptop. That's why the real con men are gone. "
Frank Abagnale
Create
Real
Want
" You have to believe in what you do. Take something you truly believe in and go about it in an honest way. "
Frank Abagnale
Go
Believe
Take
" 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
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You
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" The Internet can be used to hurt many people. "
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People
Used
Hurt
" I learned early that class is universally admired. "
Frank Abagnale
Early
Learned
Admired
" I don't believe that a piece of paper will excuse my actions. In the end, only my actions will. "
Frank Abagnale
End
Believe
Will
" 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
" 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. "
Frank Abagnale
Life
Prison
People
" Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. "
Frank Abagnale
Always
Looking
Win
" 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. "
Frank Abagnale
Coming
Ethics
Society
" 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. "
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Information
Identity
Born
" 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. "
Frank Abagnale
Picture
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Back
" 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
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" 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. "
Frank Abagnale
Moral
True
You
" I don't do online banking. "
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Online
Banking
" 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. "
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Out
Simple
People