Frank Abagnale Stuns Everyone With Stories of Being a Con Man | Carson Tonight Show

three times, the third time I passed them, I passed them legally and started working as a corporate lawyer on the attorney general's staff and I worked there for almost a year, yes I won several cases, although do you ever get the feeling that you might end up processing yourself, yes, but that's weird. Airline pilot, your doctor? Have you ever had to be careful with your drink so you don't fumble? or did you could you not drink or did you have to be careful? I always did. I never drank. I never smoke and today I don't smoke and I drink very little.

As a result, you must have been running on a kind of high adrenaline the entire time. I was running a lot, do you miss the challenge of that? I mean, do you ever get that little craving and say, hey, I have a real scam that I think would be fun to do? We must understand and I think we have pointed out. outside so we don't get mail tomorrow we're not saying you know the crime this is the kind of thing because it's fun because you do time in all those prisons right I feel like what I do now I find people very challenging sometimes they pay me to go to their places of business and see if I can defeat a system or write a bad check at a particular bank or something short for someone.

What is the best way to know if there are any bad checks? The best way to deal with personal checks is by using the number in the right corner. We have this. This is good. Here's how to spot bad checks. Six easy steps you want to talk to. about these, as we

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them, one of them is feeling the edges, what does that mean? Okay, this is a card that I design for banks and retail stores to use one of them, feel the edges is that all legitimate checks are perforated on at least one of their four sides most counterfeits are not the second is the code number the first number after this parenthesis in an account number is a federal reserve bank there are 12 federal reserve banks in the united states california is 12 the entire west coast is 12. a counterfeiter, for example, When cashing a check in the would change the number 12 on the check to the number zero one, which would send it to Boston, which gives it six days, three days, while it leaves three days and returns six days to issue. checks without anyone knowing, but if a forger can do these kinds of punch checks and print them, how is anyone supposed to tell us about a bad check?

Well, one would be to know your correct code number when training a cashier. for her to know that California has 12. So if someone gave her a check, it was from a California bank and it was 0-1, it's a forgery. Well, why didn't the four Jervis Brights invent it and put 12 in there? Well, 12 would bounce. In less than 24 hours, this gives you a chance: zero, it would take you six days to find the hip, what else now? This is magnetic ink and magnetic ink is an opaque ink and most forges can't get it. Magnetic ink will not reflect under light, so the counterfeiter uses standard black ink and when the cashier does this with the check under his light, sees a glow or shine on this number, he knows it is standard black ink.

Now I can see how many stores and people in the stores are trained. banks, but how many people among employees and others are trained to do this? I designed this card about a year ago. More than a million of them have been sold. They are used by retailers. Benches are used in schools to educate students and students of distributive education. get into the retail banking business no, it says helpful things that mean I check but it says proper identification is required now anyone can go and print out a fake driver's license and put their photo on it and that's true but most of the people don't do it.

They have to do that, they can just take someone's driver's license, not long ago at a rally for Kroger stores, I walked into a store and

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ed them I went through an express lane, I wrote a check with my doctor, my check for ten dollars and I gave it to the girl. the store manager's driver's license well not only was he not me but he was black and I'm white and she cashed the check a little bit missing there we'll be right back