American - Celebrity | April 27, 1948 -
People have found very significant and simple ways to cheat their employer and get money out of their employers, and many companies lack good internal controls.
Frank Abagnale
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I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons.
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You have to be very limited in who you give your social security number to.
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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.
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We buy into the computer, and everything that comes from the computer, we believe to be the truth.
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In all the years I've taught at the FBI Academy, I've only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect.
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At the FBI, very rarely do they investigate crime under $100,000.
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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.
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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.
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It's really frustrating when you're an identity-theft victim, and you go to the police and you say, 'This guy in Florida, he stole my name and got a credit card - this is his address,' and they say, 'We don't have jurisdiction in Florida. You need to go to the FBI.'
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One thing I've found is that if you educate and show people the risk, they will do something about it.
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I wasn't a Pan Am pilot or any other kind of pilot.
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