Frank Abagnale : (8) " I don’t use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you’re using the bank’s money. If someone accesses your information, they are stealing the bank’s money, not yours. " - Frank Abagnale " 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. " - Frank Abagnale " 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. " - Frank Abagnale " People say that life is short, but it isn’t short. It’s very long. " - Frank Abagnale " The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity. " - Frank Abagnale " I owe a debt to my country 800 times greater than I could ever repay. " - Frank Abagnale " As the lawyer, I found most of it was a matter of research, which I was great at – that’s what I did to death – and then basically persuading people that you’re right, and they’re wrong… I found that the easiest of all the professions to impersonate. " - Frank Abagnale " 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. " - Frank Abagnale