I make my home in Tulsa.
My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that – with my background – my own son would become an FBI agent.
A real man loves and respects his wife and is not only a good father but a man that his kids want to call ‘Daddy.’
What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.
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.
If I had been brilliant or a genius, I wouldn’t have needed to break the law just to survive.
It’s amazing how much information we share in social media, then we wonder why people steal our identity.
I served my time and came out of prison when I was just 26 and have worked with the government for 37 years. But people only remember me for what I did before that.
Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can’t stop looking at the pinstripes.
We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one’s life completely.
I went from 198 pounds to 109 while I was in prison in France, and I had to tie my clothes on with rope.
If I check into a hotel, a lot of times, they know who I am.
I never use debit cards. I only use credit cards. This way, if someone does get my account number… and charges $1 million, by federal law, my liability is zero.
I have never witnessed, nor will I live long enough to witness, a more simplistic crime than me stealing your identity.
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.
I taught at the FBI for four decades – how to think outside of the box and deal with social engineering.
Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively.
Airline pilots are men to be admired and respected. Men to be trusted. Men of means. And you don’t expect an airline pilot to be a local resident. Or a check swindler.
If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been ‘Catch Me In Two Days’.
I teach ethics at the FBI academy, which is ironic.
I use a credit card for everything – and I choose one of the ones which gives you money back.
The truth is, your identity already has been stolen.
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.
Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can’t stop looking at the pinstripes.
I always knew I’d get caught sooner or later. And I knew I would end up going to prison.
I spent five years of my youth in prison – some very bad prisons.
Airline pilots are men to be admired and respected. Men to be trusted. Men of means. And you don’t expect an airline pilot to be a local resident. Or a check swindler.
I’m so different from the egotistical, self-centred person I was when I did those things. And to watch someone acting out your memories on the screen is like reliving it. Like someone taking you back and showing you what you did.
If I wanted to lay down a baby con, I could say I was the product of a broken home. But I’d only be bum-rapping my parents.
Criminals know that if they stay under certain thresholds, nobody is going to come after them.
In all the years I’ve taught at the FBI Academy, I’ve only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect.
You get to a point in your life where you go, ‘I don’t remember what I did.’
Every form of payment has some risk associated with it.
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.
If you look at any successful professional – a salesperson, a marketer, a real estate agent, a trader – they all have the same qualities as the con man. The only difference is that one side uses their talents in the right direction and the con man is taking the easy way out.
The biggest thing that concerns me is when we start getting countries using cybercrime to shut down infrastructure, electricity, communications systems, the Internet, et cetera.
If you tell me your name and date of birth, that’s all I need to steal your identity.
A real man loves and respects his wife and is not only a good father but a man that his kids want to call ‘Daddy.’
I owe a debt to my country 800 times greater than I could ever repay.
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.
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.
If I had the uniform on, you didn’t doubt for a moment I was a pilot. No one ever blinked an eye if I tried to cash a cheque wearing that uniform.
You cannot rely on the police, you cannot rely on the government, you cannot rely on the bank to protect you.
The truth is, your identity already has been stolen.
I would have thought technology would have made it harder to do what I did.
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