A biography for Frank Abagnalehasn’t been written yet.
“I make my home in Tulsa.”
“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.”
“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 know that if they stay under certain thresholds, nobody is going to come after them.”
“When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21.”
“Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there's a touch of class involved.”
“Mostly, cybercriminals are motivated to commit crime for financial gain.”
“You have to be smarter and a wiser businessperson and consumer. You have to learn to protect yourself through education.”
“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.”