Quotes from Frank Abagnale

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 truth is, your identity already has been stolen.

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.

You have to be very limited in who you give your social security number to.

Nothing has brought me more love, joy and peace than being a good husband and good daddy.

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.

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 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.

A lot of times, when I met somebody and took them out on a date, I obviously didn't tell them my background, because I didn't think I'd see them but once or twice.

The law sometimes sleeps; it never dies.

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.

I always knew I'd get caught sooner or later. And I knew I would end up going to prison.

I partied in every capital in Europe, basked on all the famous beaches, and good-timed it in South America, the South Seas, the Orient, and the more palatable portions of Africa.

Mostly, cybercriminals are motivated to commit crime for financial gain.

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.

It's not what a man has but what a man is that's important.

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 know that people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but what I did was immoral, illegal, unethical, and something that I am not proud of - nor will I ever be proud of.

We're coming down to an extremely unethical society. Very few colleges offer courses in ethics, and very few companies have a code of conduct or code of ethics.

We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely.

People care about others in their immediate network.

I was always accepted at par value. I wore the uniform of a Pan Am pilot; therefore, I must be a Pan Am pilot.

I learned early that class is universally admired.

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.