Sat 10 Mar 2007
‘catch me if you can’ con-man now working on tech fraud
// category: business, person, tech(ish)
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Frank Abagnale Jr., who’s life story was featured in the movie Catch Me If You Can, is now working to catch today’s breed of tech-based fraudsters.
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Indeed, Abagnale — who today runs a highly successful security consulting firm out of Tulsa, Okla. — works hard to keep up with today’s computerized and Internet-based fraud. But instead of perpetrating elaborate scams, for more than three decades Abagnale has worked to prevent them as an advisor on theft prevention for both the FBI and a roster of corporate clients.
He never lacks for work, especially in the Internet age. “Technology tends to breed cons, and it always will,” he said. “There are always people willing to use technology in a negative, self-serving way.”

