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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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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" When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I don't do online banking. "

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" If you took a child in London and took their iPhone and took them somewhere else in the country, they'd probably not be able to find their way back. That's a shame. "

" Every case involving cybercrime that I've been involved in, I've never found a master criminal sitting somewhere in Russia or Hong Kong or Beijing. It always ends up that somebody at the company did something they weren't supposed to do. They read an email, went to a website they weren't supposed to. "

" It's about taking the time to research and think things out. Honest people and criminals do the same thing; just the direction, good or bad, is different. "

" 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. "

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

" Had I been older, I would've never been able to pull it off because I would've analyzed it to death. When I was 16, there was no such thing as 'what if.' "

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

" I teach ethics at the FBI academy, which is ironic. "

" 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. "

" Mostly, cybercriminals are motivated to commit crime for financial gain. "

" 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. "

Frank Abagnale

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" 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. "

" Most people don't reconcile their bank accounts. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" If I had been brilliant or a genius, I wouldn't have needed to break the law just to survive. "

" I didn't like taking money from individuals. "

" 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.' "