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" You fight technology with technology, so you have to stay one step ahead of the criminal. It's very much a chess game - they make a move, you have to make a move. "

Frank Abagnale

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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. "

" You have to be smarter and a wiser businessperson and consumer. You have to learn to protect yourself through education. "

" 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. "

" 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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" My father was never really the con-man type that the film shows him to be: he was straight as an arrow, though he did have problems with the IRS. "

" I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons. "

" 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. "

" Every form of payment has some risk associated with it. "

" I don't do online banking. "

Frank Abagnale

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

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" You should know, whether you live in the U.S. or in the U.K., that your identity has already been stolen. "

" In all the years I've taught at the FBI Academy, I've only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect. "

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

" We really need to get control over Social Security numbers. My children's generation, they're past it. But their children should be able to have a number that is secure. "

" I taught at the FBI for four decades - how to think outside of the box and deal with social engineering. "

" 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

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

" While I was on an undercover assignment in Texas, I met my wife, Kelly. "

" 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. "

" I learned early that class is universally admired. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "