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" The truth is, your identity already has been stolen. "
Frank Abagnale
Identity
Been
Your
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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.' "
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Credit
You
Police
" The law sometimes sleeps; it never dies. "
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Never
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" 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. "
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People
Together
Security
" It's quite flattering to have Leonardo DiCaprio play you in the movie. He's a great-looking young man. "
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Young Man
Young
Man
" I served my time and came out of prison when I was just 26 and have worked with the government for 37 years. But people only remember me for what I did before that. "
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Me
Remember
Time
" I have never witnessed, nor will I live long enough to witness, a more simplistic crime than me stealing your identity. "
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Live
Crime
Enough
" 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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Library
Work
Time
" Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there's a touch of class involved. "
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Touch
More
Crime
" I make my home in Tulsa. "
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Make
Home
" We buy into the computer, and everything that comes from the computer, we believe to be the truth. "
Frank Abagnale
Believe
Truth
Everything
" 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. "
Frank Abagnale
Start
Amazing
Problem
" When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21. "
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Look
Amazed
Back
" You have to be very limited in who you give your social security number to. "
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Number
Who
You
" 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. "
Frank Abagnale
Memories
Back
You
" I taught at the FBI for four decades - how to think outside of the box and deal with social engineering. "
Frank Abagnale
Engineering
Box
Outside
" If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'. "
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Me
Bad
Been
" There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering. "
Frank Abagnale
Today
Defeated
Technology
" There are many ways to manipulate chip cards. For example, a number of years ago when American Express issued the first chip card, criminals would take a small hammer with a little device and bang the chip to destroy it without hurting the physical appearance of the card. "
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Cards
American
Appearance
" 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 cannot rely on the police, you cannot rely on the government, you cannot rely on the bank to protect you. "
Frank Abagnale
Government
Police
Bank
" I contend that there really are no more con men. There's no need for con men anymore. There's no need for the very sophisticated, suave guy, the well-dressed guy. Today, you steal with the computer from thousands of miles away - from China, from Libya, from Hong Kong. Your victim's never going to see you, so there's no need to be any of that. "
Frank Abagnale
Need
Today
Victim
" If you tell me your name and date of birth, that's all I need to steal your identity. "
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Birth
You
Need
" 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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Crime
Trying
Step
" 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. "
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Pilot
Airline
Expect
" I always knew I'd get caught sooner or later. And I knew I would end up going to prison. "
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Always
Going
Up
" While I was on an undercover assignment in Texas, I met my wife, Kelly. "
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Undercover
Wife
Texas
" At the FBI, very rarely do they investigate crime under $100,000. "
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Rarely
Crime
Very
" I wasn't a Pan Am pilot or any other kind of pilot. "
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Am
Pan
Other
" I kept a notebook, a surreptitious journal in which I jotted down phrases, technical data, miscellaneous information, names, dates, places, telephone numbers, thoughts, and a collection of other data I thought was necessary or might prove helpful. "
Frank Abagnale
Thought
Thoughts
Data
" 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. "
Frank Abagnale
Mistake
Something
Order