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.
From Frank Abagnale
People have found very significant and simple ways to cheat their employer and get money out of their employers, and many companies lack good internal controls.
I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons.
You have to be very limited in who you give your social security number to.
We buy into the computer, and everything that comes from the computer, we believe to be the truth.
In all the years I've taught at the FBI Academy, I've only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect.
At the FBI, very rarely do they investigate crime under $100,000.
The truth is, your identity already has been stolen.
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.
Most people don't reconcile their bank accounts.
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