Quotes from Frank Abagnale

When I was 28 years old, I thought it would be great to have a movie about my life. I was egotistical and self-centered.

One thing I've found is that if you educate and show people the risk, they will do something about it.

Every form of payment has some risk associated with it.

A lot of people say I was brilliant. I wasn't. I was an opportunist: a young entrepreneur who saw things and took advantage.

Too many of us are vulnerable, and I look forward to working with AARP to advise people about the safest ways to conduct their financial transactions and manage social media.

If I had walked into a dry cleaning store, and I had looked over, and the register drawer was open with money inside, I wouldn't have taken it.

There are many ways to manipulate chip cards. For example, a number of years ago when American Express issued the first chip card, criminals would take a small hammer with a little device and bang the chip to destroy it without hurting the physical appearance of the card.

I wasn't a Pan Am pilot or any other kind of pilot.

If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.

You fight technology with technology, so you have to stay one step ahead of the criminal. It's very much a chess game - they make a move, you have to make a move.

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.

Remember what being an adult is: It has nothing to do with money or awards.

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.

We buy into the computer, and everything that comes from the computer, we believe to be the truth.

You can sit in a room and create anything you want on a laptop. That's why the real con men are gone.

If I wanted to lay down a baby con, I could say I was the product of a broken home. But I'd only be bum-rapping my parents.

There's no such thing as a foolproof system. That idea fails to take into account the creativity of fools.

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.

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.

I use a credit card for everything - and I choose one of the ones which gives you money back.

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.

I taught at the FBI for four decades - how to think outside of the box and deal with social engineering.

In all the years I've taught at the FBI Academy, I've only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect.

I teach ethics at the FBI academy, which is ironic.