Author Profile
Frank Abagnale
1948 • American • Celebrity
62
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Collected Meditations
Showing 62 quotesI was very blessed it was Steven Spielberg who made the movie. He was very much into the redemption side of the story. They asked him in an interview why he had owned the rights to this story for 20 years before he made the movie, and he said, 'I wanted to see what the real Frank Abagnale did with his life before I immortalised him on film.'— Frank Abagnale
One thing I've found is that if you educate and show people the risk, they will do something about it.— Frank Abagnale
My father was never really the con-man type that the film shows him to be: he was straight as an arrow, though he did have problems with the IRS.— Frank Abagnale
A lot of people say I was brilliant. I wasn't. I was an opportunist: a young entrepreneur who saw things and took advantage.— Frank Abagnale
I went to the library and learned how checks work. I found out that routing numbers are like zip codes: the checks are sent to the bank that correlates to the routing number. If I manipulate those numbers to a bank far away, it would take longer to get back to the bank, which gave me more time to write more bad checks.— Frank Abagnale
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.— Frank Abagnale
You should know, whether you live in the U.S. or in the U.K., that your identity has already been stolen.— Frank Abagnale
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
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.— Frank Abagnale
There's no such thing as a foolproof system. That idea fails to take into account the creativity of fools.— Frank Abagnale
I taught at the FBI for four decades - how to think outside of the box and deal with social engineering.— Frank Abagnale
I have never witnessed, nor will I live long enough to witness, a more simplistic crime than me stealing your identity.— Frank Abagnale
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.— Frank Abagnale
In all the years I've taught at the FBI Academy, I've only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect.— Frank Abagnale