Last week, while attending the Illinois CPA Society annual conference, I had the privilege of seeing Frank Abagnale, the con artist turned FBI agent on whom the movie Catch Me If You Can is based. He shared some alarming statistics with us about white collar crime and especially identity theft.
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I’d never really thought about living in an unethical country before, until I heard Frank Abagnale speak. Frank is the subject of the film “Catch Me if You Can,” who went from being the FBI’s most wanted forger, stealing millions of dollars and flying all over the world posing as a Pan Am Pilot, to a well respected 35 year veteran FBI agent, and expert on forgery, embezzlement and secure documents. He declared, “We live in an unethical country” during the keynote address at the Financial Planning Association’s annual conference in San Diego last week. Continue reading “Identity Theft Prevention Tips from a Convicted Felon”
