The Former Police Chief Of Houston Once

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."

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.

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.

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.

Most People Are Fascinated By What I Did As A Teenager, But When I Look Back At My Life, I Don't Think Very Much About Those Years. I Was An Opportunist And Got Away With Things Because I Was Very Young, But I Went To Prison And Came Out And Remade My Life.