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" You get to a point in your life where you go, 'I don't remember what I did.' "
Frank Abagnale
Remember
Point
Life
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" 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. "
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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. "
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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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" When 'Catch Me If You Can' was published back in 1980, I never dreamed that it would become a bestseller, much less a major motion picture and now a big Broadway musical. What's amazing about the book is that it has never gone out of print. "
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" If I had been brilliant or a genius, I wouldn't have needed to break the law just to survive. "
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" Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. "
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" 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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Appearance
" I know that people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but what I did was immoral, illegal, unethical, and something that I am not proud of - nor will I ever be proud of. "
Frank Abagnale
Will
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I Am
" 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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Moment
Eye
Pilot
" Most people don't recognize me, but they know my name. TSA people rarely recognize my name, ironically, and they are the security people. "
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Me
Security
People
" A lot of times, when I met somebody and took them out on a date, I obviously didn't tell them my background, because I didn't think I'd see them but once or twice. "
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Twice
Because
Date
" You should know, whether you live in the U.S. or in the U.K., that your identity has already been stolen. "
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Live
Identity
Your
" People care about others in their immediate network. "
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Others
Network
Care
" People say that life is short, but it isn't short. It's very long. "
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Long
Life Is Short
Life
" One thing I've found is that if you educate and show people the risk, they will do something about it. "
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Will
You
One Thing
" 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.' "
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Story
Blessed
Interview
" 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
" 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. "
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People
Financial
Media
" We should be very concerned: if identity theft is so simple to do, what's to stop me from entering this country and assuming the identity of someone else for the sole purpose of living here illegally for terrorist reasons? That alone would be a concern. "
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Identity
Alone
Simple
" The truth is, your identity already has been stolen. "
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Identity
Been
Your
" I didn't like taking money from individuals. "
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Money
Taking
Individuals
" I went from 198 pounds to 109 while I was in prison in France, and I had to tie my clothes on with rope. "
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Rope
Prison
Tie
" I use a credit card for everything - and I choose one of the ones which gives you money back. "
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Use
Money
Back
" Whether you're earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it's very important to protect your credit rating. "
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You
Year
Credit
" 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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Mistake
Something
Order
" Most people don't reconcile their bank accounts. "
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Reconcile
Bank
Accounts
" 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.' "
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What If
Been
Death
" 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
" The law sometimes sleeps; it never dies. "
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Law
Never
Sleeps
" 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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Home
Parents
Baby