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02/26/15 Catch me if you can Many of us know might not know Frank Abagnale Jr. He became notorious for impersonating a pilot, a doctor, and a lawyer while in his early 20s. He was arrested at 21 by the French police, and later hired by the FBI to teach them his fraudulent tricks. They made a film about his life which is “
Catch Me If You
Can
”. Frank Abagnale Jr. was born on April 27, 1948, in Bronxville, New York. He was one of four children born to parents Frank Abagnale Sr. and Paulette
Abagnale. In the movie they don’t clarified this and just come out as an only child. After getting caught, the cops realized he could help them with money forgery. He worked for the FBI. In the movie they tell us that he was successful but never said he started his own consulting agency, educating corporations, financial institutions and government agencies. Today he has associated with the
FBI for over 35 years. He lectures extensively at the FBI Academy and for the field offices of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
I personally like the movie because it is very interesting. It shows us that although he acts older than his actual age there are times when, as a teen, doesn’t know what to do. I dont think that he would commit a crime like that now because he has a lot of money and everybody knows who he is. It would be harder to get away with a crime like that again. In the year of the movie they didn’t have today’s technology and Mr. Abagnale could get away with certain thing but now would be harder because we have more security and can use anything to find a suspect.
There are many cases like the one of Mr. Abagnale. Wichita Falls police arrested one man in a case involving attempts to cash forged checks at several businesses this week.The cases have involved male suspects going to businesses and trying to cash checks from a company called Labor Ready. A representative of Labor Ready in Wichita Falls cited