Frank William Abagnale, Jr.
Born	April 27, 1948 (1948-04-27) (age 59) New Rochelle, New York
Conviction(s)	fraud, forgery, swindling
Penalty	12 mo. in French prison (about 6 mo. served) 6 mo. in Swedish prison 12 yr. in US prison (<5 yr. served)
Occupation	CEO Abagnale & Associates, security consultants

Frank William Abagnale, Jr. (born April 27, 1948) is a former check con artist, forger and imposter who, for five years in the 1960s, passed bad checks worth more than $2.5 million in 26 countries. During this time, he used eight aliases — even more to cash bad checks. Currently he runs Abagnale and Associates, a financial fraud consultancy company. His life story provided the inspiration for the feature film Catch Me if You Can, nominally based on his ghostwritten biography of the same name. April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 248 days remaining. ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_New_York. ... New Rochelle City Hall New Roc City New Rochelle (French: Nouvelle-Rochelle) is a city in the southeast portion of the U.S. state of New York in Westchester County, 16 miles (26 km) from Grand Central Terminal in New York City and 2 miles north of the border with... Forgery is the process of making or adapting objects or documents (see false document), with the intention to deceive. ... In the broadest sense, a fraud is a deception made for personal gain. ... April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 248 days remaining. ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A confidence trick, confidence game, or con for short, (also known as a scam) is an attempt to intentionally mislead a person or persons (known as the mark) usually with the goal of financial or other gain. ... Forgery is the process of making or adapting objects or documents (see false document), with the intention to deceive. ... An Impostor (or Imposter) is a person who pretends to be somebody else. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969. ... A consultant (from the Latin consultare meaning to discuss from which we also derive words such as consul and counsel) is a professional who provides expert advice in a particular area of expertise such as accountancy, the environment, technology, the law, human resources, marketing, medicine, finance, public affairs, communication, engineering... Catch Me If You Can is a 2002 motion picture set in the 1960s. ... For other uses, see Ghostwriter (disambiguation). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Biography

Born and raised in the Westchester County city of New Rochelle, New York, he was the third of four children born to a French mother, Paula Abagnale, and an American father, Frank William Abagnale, Sr. Frank had two brothers and one sister. He attended Iona Preparatory School, an all boys Catholic high school which was run by the Irish Christian Brothers. In 1962, when he was 14, his parents divorced. The experience was so traumatic, he ran away two years later. It was the last time he saw his father, though he renewed contact with his mother after seven years. He did, however, call his father during his extradition from prison in Europe after escaping from an airplane. ^[1] Westchester County is a suburban county with about 940,000 residents located in the U.S. state of New York. ... New Rochelle City Hall New Roc City New Rochelle (French: Nouvelle-Rochelle) is a city in the southeast portion of the U.S. state of New York in Westchester County, 16 miles (26 km) from Grand Central Terminal in New York City and 2 miles north of the border with... Iona Preparatory School is an all-boys Catholic high school located in New Rochelle, NY in suburban Westchester County. ... The Congregation of Christian Brothers is a world-wide community of religious brothers of the Catholic church, founded by Blessed Edmund Rice. ...

One of the early signs of his future as a fraudster came when after purchasing a car, he persuaded his father to lend him his Mobil card. With this card, he would purchase large quantities of car parts, such as tires, batteries, and engines. The purchases were on paper only, the goods were never taken off the shelves. In an agreement with the gas station attendant, he would then immediately return the items for cash for less than the price at which they were purchased, the remainder being pocketed by the attendant. Not realizing that the card was in his father's name, he conned his dad out of $3400, doing this to pay for dates, before the local Mobil branch sought his father out for questioning and expecting payment. Upon being confronted, Abagnale confessed to his father that "it's the girls that make me crazy," but escaped punishment from the incident. Later, his mother placed him for four months in a special Catholic Charities school for juvenile offenders. Mobil gas station in the Loisaida section of the East Village of New York City Mobil was a major American oil company which merged with Exxon in 1999 to form ExxonMobil. ... Catholic Charities is a worldwide charitable organization whose aim is to reduce poverty, support families, and empower communities. ...

Living alone in New York City after running away, he became known as the "Big Nale", later shortened to just "Big". He decided to exploit his mature appearance and alter his driver's license to make it appear that he was ten years older to get a job. However Abagnale, posing as a high school dropout in his mid-twenties, quickly learned the more education one has, the more one is paid. Desperate to survive, he soon began working as a con artist to earn money. New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Current EU driving licence, German version - front 1. ... A confidence trick, confidence game, or con for short, (also known as a scam) is an attempt to intentionally mislead a person or persons (known as the mark) usually with the goal of financial or other gain. ...

Bank fraud

His first con was writing personal cheques on his own overdrawn account, an activity which he discovered was possible when he was forced to write cheques for more money than was in the account. This, however, would only work for a limited time before the bank demanded payment, so he moved on to opening other accounts in different banks, eventually creating new identities to sustain this charade. Over time, he experimented and developed different ways of defrauding banks, such as printing out his own almost-perfect copies of cheques, cashing them and persuading banks to advance him cash on the basis of money in his accounts. The money, of course, never materialized as the cheques deposited in it were rejected.

One of Abagnale's famous tricks was to print his account number on blank deposit slips and add them to the stack of real blank slips in the bank. This meant that the deposits written on those slips by bank customers ended up going into his account rather than that of the legitimate customers. He collected over $40,000 by this method before he was discovered. By the time the bank began looking into his case, Abagnale had collected all the money and had already changed his identity.

Impersonations

Pilot

For a period of two years Abagnale masqueraded as Pan Am pilot "Frank Williams" to get free rides around the world by deadheading on scheduled airline flights. Deadheading is a practice in which pilots receive free transportation from other airlines as a professional courtesy, when their employer requires them to fly out of another city on short notice. Everything from food, airline tickets, and lodgings was billed entirely to Pan Am. In order to do this, he made a counterfeit Pan Am ID card from a sample model while posing as a businessman. He obtained a FAA pilot's certificate by buying a display plaque, which he copied and resized down to ID card form. He purports to have forged a degree from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He also obtained a Pan Am pilot's uniform by claiming that the dry cleaners had lost his. The newspapers knew him as "Skyway Man" and "The James Bond of the Sky". Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) was the United States principal international airline from the 1930s until its collapse in 1991, and was credited with many innovations that shaped the international airline industry. ... For other uses, see Aviator (disambiguation). ... “FAA” redirects here. ... Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) is a not-for-profit, non-sectarian, coeducational private university with a history dating back to the early days of aviation. ... Dry cleaning is any cleaning process for clothing and textiles using an organic solvent other than water — generally known as dry cleaning fluid, and typically this is tetrachloroethylene. ...

Physician

Later, he impersonated a pediatrician in a Georgia hospital under the name "Frank Conners". He chose to do this after nearly being caught by police after getting off a flight in New Orleans. Aware of possible capture, he retired to Georgia for the time being, and he put his previous occupation as a doctor on an application for an apartment, for fear that the owner might check with Pan Am. After becoming friends with a real doctor who lived next door, he became a resident supervisor as a favor for him until they found someone who could take the job. He did not find the job difficult because the supervisor does not do any actual medical work. However, as a medical layman, Abagnale was nearly discovered after almost letting a baby die of oxygen deprivation (he had no idea what the nurse meant when she said there was a "blue baby"). Abagnale was able to fake his way through most of his duties by letting the interns handle most of the cases that came in during his late night shift, for example setting broken bones and other such tasks. After 11 months, the hospital finally found another replacement and he returned to the air. Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics or pædiatrics) is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants and children. ... For the town in the Republic of Ireland, see Hospital, County Limerick. ... New Orleans is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ... This page may meet Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... ...

Attorney

Abagnale forged a Harvard University Law transcript, passed the bar exam of Louisiana and got a job at the office of the state attorney general of Louisiana at the age of nineteen. This happened while he was posing as Pan Am First Officer "Robert Black". He told a flight attendant he had briefly dated that he was also a Harvard law student. The flight attendant introduced him to a lawyer friend. Abagnale was told the bar needed more lawyers and was offered a chance to apply. After making a phony transcript from Harvard, he prepared himself for the compulsory exam. Despite failing twice, he claims to have passed the bar exam legitimately on the third try after two weeks of study, because, "Louisiana at the time allowed you to (take) the Bar over and over as many times as you needed. It was really a matter of eliminating what you got wrong."^[2] Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... A bar examination is an series of tests conducted at regular intervals to determine whether a candidate is qualified to practice law in a given American examination usually consists of the following: complicated essay questions concerning that jurisdictions law; the Multistate Bar Examination, a standardized, nationwide examination containing generalized... This article is about the U.S. State. ... In most common law jurisdictions, the Attorney General is the main legal adviser to the government, and in some jurisdictions may in addition have executive responsibility for law enforcement or responsibility for public prosecutions. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... A bar examination is an series of tests conducted at regular intervals to determine whether a candidate is qualified to practice law in a given American examination usually consists of the following: complicated essay questions concerning that jurisdictions law; the Multistate Bar Examination, a standardized, nationwide examination containing generalized...

In his biography, he described the premise of his legal job as a "gopher boy" who simply fetched coffee and books for his boss. However, there was a real Harvard graduate who also worked for that attorney general, and he hounded him with questions about his tenure at Harvard. Naturally, Abagnale couldn't answer questions about a university he never attended, and he later resigned after eight months to protect himself, upon learning the suspicious graduate was making inquiries into his background. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... For other uses, see Coffee (disambiguation). ...

Teacher

He purports to have forged a Columbia University degree and taught sociology at Brigham Young University for a semester working as a teaching assistant.^[3] To teach the class, he read a chapter ahead of his students. Alma Mater Columbia University is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. ... Sociology (from Latin: socius, companion; and the suffix -ology, the study of, from Greek λόγος, lógos, knowledge [1]) is the systematic and scientific study of society, including patterns of social relationships, social action, and culture[2]. Areas studied in sociology can range from the analysis of brief contacts between anonymous... , Brigham Young University Brigham Young University (BYU), located in Provo, Utah, is the flagship university of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon Church) and is THE university in Utah. ... A teaching assistant (TA) is a junior scholar employed on a temporary contract by a college or university for the purpose of assisting a professor by teaching students in recitation or discussion sessions, holding office hours, grading homework or exams, supervising labs (in science and engineering courses), and sometimes teaching...

Capture and imprisonment

Eventually he was caught in France in 1969 when an Air France attendant recognized his face from a wanted poster. When the French police apprehended him, all 26 of the countries in which he had committed fraud wanted to extradite him. He first served prison time in Perpignan's House of Arrest in France; a one year sentence that was reduced to six months, where he almost died. His stay in Perpignan left him fearful of spending more time in another version of the prison. Air France (formally Société Air France) is Europes largest airline company. ... Extradition is the official process by which one nation or state requests and obtains from another nation or state the surrender of a suspected or convicted criminal. ... Perpignan (French: Perpignan, pronounced ; Catalan Perpinyà, pronounced ) is a commune and the préfecture (administrative capital city) of the Pyrénées-Orientales département in southern France. ...

He was then extradited to Sweden where he was treated fairly well under Swedish law. During trial for forgery, his defense attorney almost had his case dismissed by arguing that he had "created" the fake cheques and not forged them, but his charges were reduced to swindling. He served six months in a Malmö prison, only to learn at the end of it he would be tried next in Italy, where prison standards were much like that of Perpignan. Later, a judge revoked his United States passport and deported him to the U.S. to prevent further extradition. He was sentenced to 12 years in a federal prison for multiple counts of forgery.^[4] Forgery is the process of making or adapting objects or documents (see false document), with the intention to deceive. ... In the broadest sense, a fraud is a deception made for personal gain. ... Motto: FrÃ¥n arbetarstad till kunskapsstad (eng: From industrial city to knowledge city) Location of Malmö in northern Europe Coordinates: , Country  Sweden Municipality Malmö Municipality County SkÃ¥ne County Province Scania (SkÃ¥ne) Charter 13th century Government  - Mayor Illmar Reepalu Area  - City 335. ... For Microsoft Corporation’s “universal login” service, formerly known as Microsoft Passport Network, see Windows Live ID. For other types of travel document, see Travel document. ... This is a list of U.S. federal prisons. ...

Alleged escapes

While being extradited to the U.S., Abagnale claims to have escaped a British VC-10 airliner as it was turning onto a taxi strip at New York's JFK International Airport. Abagnale purported in his biography (originally published in 1980) to have removed the toilet knobs in the plane's lavatory and squeezed through a two-foot-square hatch cover before dropping ten feet to the tarmac below. Under cover of night he scaled a nearby fence and hailed a cab to Grand Central Terminal. After stopping in the Bronx to change clothes and pick up a set of keys to a Montreal bank safe-deposit box containing $20,000 USD, Abagnale caught a train to Montreal's Dorval airport (now Montreal-Pierre Elliot Trudeau International Airport) to purchase a ticket to São Paulo, Brazil, a country with which the U.S. has no extradition treaty. He was caught by a constable of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police while standing in line at the ticket counter and subsequently handed over to U.S. Border Patrol. The VC-10 airliner was designed and built by Vickers (part of the British Aircraft Corporation) in the 1960s. ... John F. Kennedy International Airport (IATA Airport Code: JFK, ICAO Airport Code: KJFK) is the main international airport in New York City, and is one of the largest airports in the world. ... The main concourse Grand Central Terminal (GCT, often unofficially called Grand Central Station) is a terminal rail station at 15 Vanderbilt Avenue (42nd Street and Park Avenue) in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. ... For other uses, see Bronx (disambiguation). ... Nickname: Motto: Concordia Salus (well-being through harmony) Coordinates: , Country Province Region Montréal Founded 1642 Established 1832 Government  - Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area [1][2][3]  - City 365. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Landmark buildings Edifício Italia (at left) and Copan (curved façade at center), in São Paulo Downtown. ... Extradition is the official process by which one nation or state requests and obtains from another nation or state the surrender of a suspected or convicted criminal. ... RCMP redirects here. ... Categories: Stub | U.S. Dept. ...

Before being sentenced to 12 years in the Federal Correction Institution at Petersburg, Virginia in April 1971, Abagnale also purportedly escaped the Federal Detention Center in Atlanta, Georgia while awaiting trial, which he considers in his book to be one of the most infamous escapes in history. During the time, U.S. prisons were being condemned by civil rights groups and investigated by congressional committees. In a stroke of luck that included the accompanying U.S. marshal forgetting his detention commitment papers, Abagnale was mistaken for an undercover prison inspector and was even given privileges and food far better than the other inmates. The FDC in Atlanta had already lost two employees as a result of reports written by undercover federal agents, and Abagnale took advantage of their vulnerability. He contacted a friend (called in his book "Jean Sebring") who posed as his fiancee and slipped him the business card of "Inspector C.W. Dunlap" of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons which she'd obtained by posing as a freelance writer doing an article on "fire safety measures in federal detention centers." She also handed over a business card from "Sean O'Riley" (later revealed to be Joseph Shea), the FBI agent in charge of Abagnale's case, which she doctored at a stationery print shop. Abagnale told the guards that he was indeed a prison inspector and handed over Dunlap's business card as proof. He told them that he needed to contact FBI agent, Sean O'Riley, on a matter of urgent business. O'Riley's phone number was dialed and picked up by Jean Sebring, at a payphone in an Atlanta shopping-mall, posing as an operator at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Later, he was allowed to meet unsupervised with O'Riley in a predetermined car outside the detention center. Sebring, incognito, picked Abagnale up and drove him to an Atlanta bus station where he took a Greyhound to New York, and soon thereafter, a train to Washington D.C. Abagnale bluffed his way through an attempted capture by posing as an FBI agent after being recognized by a motel registration clerk. Still bent on making his way to Brazil, Abagnale was picked up a few weeks later by two New York City police detectives when he inadvertently walked past their unmarked police car.^[5] Nickname: Location in the State of Virginia Coordinates: , Country United States State Virginia County Independent city Founded December 17, 1748 Government  - Mayor Annie M. Mickens Area  - City  23. ... Atlanta redirects here. ... The United States Marshals Service, part of the United States Department of Justice, is the United States oldest federal law enforcement agency. ... F.B.I. and FBI redirect here. ... Greyhound Lines is the largest inter-city common carrier of passengers by bus in North America , serving 2,200 destinations in the United States. ... This article is about the state. ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United...

Legitimate jobs

In 1974, after only serving less than five years, the United States federal government released him on condition that he would help the federal authorities against fraud and scam artists—without pay.^[4] After his release, Abagnale tried several jobs, from a cook, grocer, and movie projectionist, but he was fired from most of these upon having his criminal career discovered via background checks. Finding them unsatisfying, he approached a bank with an offer. He explained to the bank what he had done, and offered to speak to the bank's staff and show various tricks that "paperhangers" use to defraud banks. For other uses, see Bank (disambiguation). ... Check kiting is any sort of fraud that involves drawing out money from one bank account that does not have sufficient funds to cover the check. ...

That same year, Abagnale made an offer to the bank that if they did not find his speech helpful, they owed him nothing; otherwise, they owed him $50 and would spread his name to other banks. Naturally, they were very impressed, and he began a legitimate life as a security consultant.

He later founded Abagnale & Associates^[6], which advises the business world on fraud, and organizes lecture tours. Through this system, he raised enough money to pay back all those he scammed over his criminal career. Abagnale is now a multi-millionaire through his legal fraud detection and avoidance consulting business based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He lives there with his wife, whom he married one year after becoming legitimate. They have three sons. Nickname: Location in the state of Oklahoma Coordinates: , Country State Counties Tulsa, Osage, Wagoner, Rogers Government  - Mayor Kathy Taylor (D) Area  - City  186. ...

Media appearances

In 1977, Abagnale appeared on the TV quiz show To Tell the Truth, along with two contestants also presenting themselves as him. Video excerpt Clips from this episode appeared in Catch Me if You Can interspersed with new footage featuring actor Leonardo DiCaprio in his place. Nipsey Russell, Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen and Kitty Carlisle from the 1969-78 version. ... Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11 1974[1]) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor who garnered world wide fame for his role as Jack Dawson in Titanic. ...

In the early 1990s Abagnale featured as a recurring guest on the UK Channel 4 television series Secret Cabaret. The show was based around magic and illusions with a sinister, almost gothic presentation style. Abagnale featured as an expert exposing various cons. This unique, visually stunning and shocking television series ran for two series on Channel 4 in the 1980s and earned an international cult following, as well as being nominated for a Royal Television Society Award. ...

In the film Catch Me if You Can, Abagnale has a bit-part role as a French policeman who arrests his onscreen counterpart (Leonardo DiCaprio). Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11 1974[1]) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor who garnered world wide fame for his role as Jack Dawson in Titanic. ...

In 2007, Abagnale appeared in a short role as a speaker in the BBC TV series The Real Hustle. He spoke of different scams run by fraudsters. For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... The Real Hustle is a BBC television series made by Objective Productions demonstrating confidence and magic tricks, distraction scams and proposition bets performed on members of the public by presenters, Alexis Conran, Paul Wilson and Jessica-Jane Clement. ...

Books

In 2002, Abagnale wrote The Art of the Steal. In the chapters, he listed common cons and ways to prevent consumers from being defrauded. He also talked about identity theft and the advent of Internet scamming.^[7] Also see: 2002 (number). ...

• Catch Me if You Can, 2000. ISBN 0-7679-0538-5 (used as a source for most of the biography)
• The Art of the Steal, Broadway Books, 2001. ISBN 0-7679-0683-7
• Real U Guide To Identity Theft
• Stealing Your Life, Random House/Broadway Books, released April 2007

Abagnale has made over 20 million dollars from his three books ^{[citation needed]}

Portrayal of Abagnale

Abagnale and portrayer Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio portrayed Abagnale in the 2002 Steven Spielberg film Catch Me if You Can. The film is based on his exploits as described in his book of the same name (ISBN 0-7679-0538-5), but alters many aspects of his life story for dramatic purposes. Image File history File links 08catchme. ... Image File history File links 08catchme. ... Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11 1974[1]) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor who garnered world wide fame for his role as Jack Dawson in Titanic. ... Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11 1974[1]) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor who garnered world wide fame for his role as Jack Dawson in Titanic. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... Steven Spielberg (born December 18, 1946)[1] is an American film director and producer. ... Catch Me If You Can is a 2002 motion picture set in the 1960s. ...

See also

• Questioned document examination

Questioned document examination (QDE) is known by many names including forensic document examination, document examination, diplomatics, handwriting examination, and sometimes handwriting analysis, although the latter name is not often used as it may be confused with graphology. ...

References

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