Frank Abagnale
Frank Abagnale
Frank William Abagnale, Jr.is an American security consultant known for his history as a former confidence trickster, check forger, and impostor between the ages of 15 and 21. He became one of the most famous impostors ever, claiming to have assumed no fewer than eight identities, including an airline pilot, a physician, a U.S. Bureau of Prisons agent, and a lawyer. He escaped from police custody twice, before he was 21 years old. He served less than five years in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCriminal
Date of Birth27 April 1948
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
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.
The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity.
The 2005 FBI Computer Crime Survey should serve as a wake-up call to every company in America.
Whether you're earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it's very important to protect your credit rating.
Why do the Yankees always win? ... The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.
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.
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.
The Internet is a wonderful thing, but it opens the door to many crimes, so you have to stay ahead of it.
Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively.
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.
The biggest thing that concerns me is when we start getting countries using cybercrime to shut down infrastructure, electricity, communications systems, the Internet, et cetera.
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.