Frank Abagnale
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 in life than simply being a good husband and father.Collection: Fathers
Christopher Walken and Nathalie Baye played my parents so well that I really thought I was in my living room at Christmas. My mother couldn't have been played more correctly.Collection: Christmas
Nothing has brought me more love, joy and peace than being a good husband and good daddy.Collection: Peace
Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively.Collection: Technology
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 are stealing the bank's money, not yours.Collection: Money
What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.Collection: Technology
There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering.Collection: Technology
I think I was so successful, not because I was brilliant, but because I was so young. I had no fear of consequences.Collection: Fear
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.Collection: Alone
Airline pilots are men to be admired and respected. Men to be trusted. Men of means. And you don't expect an airline pilot to be a local resident. Or a check swindler.Collection: Men
You have to think a little smarter, be proactive, not reactive.
The law sometimes sleeps; it never dies.
We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely.
Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.
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.
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.
There's no such thing as a foolproof system. That idea fails to take into account the creativity of fools.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
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 that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular.
People say that life is short, but it isn't short. It's very long.
I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons.
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 teach ethics at the FBI academy, which is ironic.
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 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.
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 because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away.
I use a credit card for everything - and I choose one of the ones which gives you money back.
Whether you're earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it's very important to protect your credit rating.
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.
The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity.
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.
I taught at the FBI for four decades - how to think outside of the box and deal with social engineering.
By the time I had reached the age of 16, in the 10th grade, my parents, after 22 years of marriage, one day decided to get a divorce.
The Internet is a wonderful thing, but it opens the door to many crimes, so you have to stay ahead of it.
If you tell me your name and date of birth, that's all I need to steal your identity.
If I had been brilliant or a genius, I wouldn't have needed to break the law just to survive.
I'm so different from the egotistical, self-centred person I was when I did those things. And to watch someone acting out your memories on the screen is like reliving it. Like someone taking you back and showing you what you did.
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.
Unlike most divorces, where the children were usually the first to know, my parents were very good about keeping that a secret.
If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
I'm a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so I'm never tempted or put in a position where I could do something to defraud my employer.
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.
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 imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent.
When people ask me about being portrayed onscreen by Leonardo DiCaprio, I always say, 'I love it - no matter how old I get, people are going to think that's what I look like.'
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 those years. I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.
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.
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.