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" 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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" Only one thing makes a man a man. He loves his wife, is faithful to her, and puts his wife and kids as the most important things in life. "

" I have never witnessed, nor will I live long enough to witness, a more simplistic crime than me stealing your identity. "

" 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. "

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

" At the FBI, very rarely do they investigate crime under $100,000. "

" There's no such thing as a foolproof system. That idea fails to take into account the creativity of fools. "

" The biggest thing that concerns me is when we start getting countries using cybercrime to shut down infrastructure, electricity, communications systems, the Internet, et cetera. "

" Every breach you look at occurred because somebody inside did something they weren't supposed to do. Sometimes there's an accomplice, but most of the time, it's innocent. "

" 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. "

" The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity. "

" If I check into a hotel, a lot of times, they know who I am. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was very blessed it was Steven Spielberg who made the movie. He was very much into the redemption side of the story. They asked him in an interview why he had owned the rights to this story for 20 years before he made the movie, and he said, 'I wanted to see what the real Frank Abagnale did with his life before I immortalised him on film.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I think I was so successful, not because I was brilliant, but because I was so young. I had no fear of consequences. "

" It is amazing the information we give away. We make it easier and easier for criminals. "

" I was just a guy who ran away from home at 16 because my parents were getting a divorce and the judge was making me choose which parent to live with. I didn't want to make that choice. I ended up in New York City. "

" 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. "

" Too many of us are vulnerable, and I look forward to working with AARP to advise people about the safest ways to conduct their financial transactions and manage social media. "

" 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. "

" Had I been older - maybe 25 or 30 - I would have never tried half the things I did because I would have rationalized everything and never did it. "