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" You have to be very limited in who you give your social security number to. "
Frank Abagnale
Number
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You
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" 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. "
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" The Internet can be used to hurt many people. "
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" At the FBI, very rarely do they investigate crime under $100,000. "
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" I was always accepted at par value. I wore the uniform of a Pan Am pilot; therefore, I must be a Pan Am pilot. "
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" 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. "
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Parents
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" A real man loves and respects his wife and is not only a good father but a man that his kids want to call 'Daddy.' "
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Want
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" There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering. "
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" Mostly, cybercriminals are motivated to commit crime for financial gain. "
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" 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. "
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Things
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Never
" 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. "
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Website
Always
Company
" I teach ethics at the FBI academy, which is ironic. "
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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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Picture
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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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Wheels
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" 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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Go
Believe
Take
" Every form of payment has some risk associated with it. "
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Every
Some
Payment
" 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. "
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Lawyer
People
Death
" We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely. "
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Changes
Age
Grow
" Criminals know that if they stay under certain thresholds, nobody is going to come after them. "
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Going
Come
Stay
" 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. "
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Men
Character
Help
" Everything I have today was because of the love of a woman. "
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Woman
Today
Love
" I think I was so successful, not because I was brilliant, but because I was so young. I had no fear of consequences. "
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Fear
Think
Successful
" 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. "
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Think
Day
Father
" 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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Life
Man
" 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 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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Real
Want
" 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. "
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Will
Proud
I Am
" I didn't like taking money from individuals. "
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Money
Taking
Individuals
" While I was on an undercover assignment in Texas, I met my wife, Kelly. "
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Wife
Texas
" 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
" I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons. "
Frank Abagnale
Prison
Years
Prisons