Frank Abagnale Quotes

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• A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content…
• 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…
• I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses your information, they…
• Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.
• If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
• 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…
• When I was a child at sixteen, I was just a child. All sixteen year-olds are just children. As much as we like them to…
• What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.
• Im a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so Im never…
• Most people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but when I look back at my life, I don't think very much about…
• I was always in the right place at the right time, always willing to take advantage of an opportunity.
• Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so…
• Dear dad, you always told me that an honest man has nothing to fear, so I'm trying my best not to be afraid.
• If you believe you have a foolproof system, you've failed to take into consideration the creativity of fools.
• The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity.
• Whether you're earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it's very important to protect your credit rating.
• Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know…
• 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…
• In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone…
• 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…

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