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" The law sometimes sleeps; it never dies. "
Frank Abagnale
Law
Never
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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. "
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" A real man loves and respects his wife and is not only a good father but a man that his kids want to call 'Daddy.' "
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" I never use debit cards. I only use credit cards. This way, if someone does get my account number... and charges $1 million, by federal law, my liability is zero. "
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Credit
Never
" You can sit in a room and create anything you want on a laptop. That's why the real con men are gone. "
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" 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. "
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" You get to a point in your life where you go, 'I don't remember what I did.' "
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" 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. "
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" I don't do online banking. "
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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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Something
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" It's quite flattering to have Leonardo DiCaprio play you in the movie. He's a great-looking young man. "
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" 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. "
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