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Date of Birth
27 April 1948, Bronxville, New York, USA

Birth Name
Frank William Abagnale Jr.

Height
6' (1.83 m)

Spouse
? (1976 - present)

Trivia

Has an IQ of 136

Successfully impersonated an airline pilot, doctor, assistant attorney general & a history professor all before the age of 18.

Has 3 sons

Went under the aliases Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams and Robert Monjo.

Cashed over $2.5 million in forged checks

Known in 26 countries & all fifty US states as "The Skywayman".

Lectures at the FBI's Financial Crimes Unit

Heads his own security firm that is hired by major banks and corporations to organize security measures to protect them. The checks you write that have that little lock that appears on the back of them for the watermark, Frank was the one who invented and implemented that system to be a standard on all bank checks (personal and bank issued) to make it harder for them to be forged and altered.


Personal Quotes

If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been "Catch Me In Two Days".

What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.



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