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I Always Tell People What I Did 50 Years Ago As A Teenager Is Now 4,000 Times Easier To Do Today Than When I Did It. Technology Breeds Crime - It Always Has And It Always Will. There's Always Going To Be People Willing To Use Technology In A Negative, Self-serving Way. So Today It's Much Easier, Whether It's Forging Checks Or Getting Information. People Go On Facebook And Tell You What Car They Drive, Their Mother's Name, Where You Are Going On Vacation, Where You've Been On Vacation. There's Nothing You Can't Research In A Matter Of A Couple Of Minutes And Find Out About Someone.

The Former Police Chief Of Houston Once Said Of Me: "frank Abagnale Could Write A Check On Toilet Paper, Drawn On The Confederate States Treasury, Sign It 'u.r. Hooked' And Cash It At Any Bank In Town, Using A Hong Kong Driver's License For Identification."

If My Forgeries Looked As Bad As The Cbs Documents, It Would Have Been "catch Me In Two Days."

Criminals Look At Identity Theft And Say Only 1 In 700 Criminals Gets Convicted Of It. And They Look At Check Forgery And They Know That For Every 1,400 Forgers Arrested, Only About 123 Get Convicted And About 26 Go To Jail. So The Rewards Are Great, But The Risks Are Very Slim. So That's One Of The Reasons That Make It Very Popular.

It's Not What A Man Has But What A Man Is That's Important.