You have to think a little smarter, be proactive, not reactive. Frank Abagnale More Quotes by Frank Abagnale More Quotes From Frank Abagnale 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. Frank Abagnale informationusecards I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, and other sensual goodies. I partied in every capital in Europe and basked on all the world's most famous beaches. Frank Abagnale sensualeuropebeach 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. Frank Abagnale policeidentitypeople I look at my life today at 69 and I think about all the things that have happened after all my imprisonment. We truly live in an amazing country, America is where you can do things and pay your debt back to society and literally change your life if you want to. Frank Abagnale todaycountrythinking Dear dad, you always told me that an honest man has nothing to fear, so I'm trying my best not to be afraid. Frank Abagnale dadhonestyfunny The former police chief of Houston once said of me: "Frank Abagnale could write a check on toilet paper, drawn on the Confederate States Treasury, sign it 'U.R. Hooked' and cash it at any bank in town, using a Hong Kong driver's license for identification." Frank Abagnale houstonpolicewriting 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. Frank Abagnale peoplelooksthinking 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. Frank Abagnale criminalsrussiasitting 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. Frank Abagnale informationidentityway What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime. Frank Abagnale youthtechnologytoday Whether you're earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it's very important to protect your credit rating. Frank Abagnale creditimportantyears 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.' Frank Abagnale goodmanwifefather I served my time and came out of prison when I was just 26 and have worked with the government for 37 years. But people only remember me for what I did before that. Frank Abagnale megovernmenttimepeople If you look at any successful professional - a salesperson, a marketer, a real estate agent, a trader - they all have the same qualities as the con man. The only difference is that one side uses their talents in the right direction and the con man is taking the easy way out. Frank Abagnale lookyoumanway Nothing has brought me more love, joy and peace than being a good husband and good daddy. Frank Abagnale goodmelovepeace There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering. Frank Abagnale engineeringdefeatedtechnologytoday 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. Frank Abagnale mewomencharactermen 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. Frank Abagnale neveryoutodaymen 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. Frank Abagnale controlgenerationchildrenpast I always knew I'd get caught sooner or later. And I knew I would end up going to prison. Frank Abagnale goingendalwaysprison
