This was based on the life story of Frank Abignale Jr., a guy that outsmarted the delicate world of paper trails, credentials, and documentation. With a detailed typeset and some stickers, he became an airline pilot, then a doctor, changed to a professor, then a lawyer(he passed the BAR on his third try), and slept with dozens along the way thanks to his affluent title and the shallowness of women. Today he's the CEO of Abignale and Associates, a broadbased and internationally respected fraud consulting firm in Pennsylvania.
With 50 years of experience in paper and electronic craft, the FBI has made check fraud a much more difficult sustainance today, although it is far from impossible. The North Korean SuperDollar has been a formidable fake, with such undiscernable features and wide circulation that you may have been in contact with one.
I remember Mr Williams showing this in calc AB. Interesting choice. Dwyer once refered to it, saying, "If you mess with the currency, the FBI comes and rips up your floorboards; if you're really good at it, they hire you." No matter, with Tom Hanks and Speilberg on the set, you can't go wrong.
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The autobiography is pretty cool, he talks about how miserable he actually was, always running from the Feds and always being alone. Then he gets captured by the French police and gets thrown in the French prison, which was really brutal. He spent 6 months in nothing but a concrete cell with no light. Doctors say he almost died, so whatever you do, DO NOT get arrested in France.
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