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The world--famous former con artist and bestselling author ofCatch Me if You Can now reveals the mind--boggling tricks of thescam trade--with advice that has made him one of America's mostsought--after fraud--prevention experts.
"I had as much knowledge as any man alive concerning themechanics of forgery, check swindling, counterfeiting, and othersimilar crimes. Ever since I'd been released from prison, I'd oftenfelt that if I directed this knowledge into the right channels, Icould help people a great deal. Every time I went to the store andwrote a check, I would see two or three mistakes made on the partof the clerk or cashier, mistakes that a flimflam artist would takeadvantage of. . . . In a certain sense, I'm still a con artist. I'mjust putting down a positive con these days, as opposed to thenegative con I used in the past. I've merely redirected the talentsI've always possessed. I've applied the same relentless attentionto working on stopping fraud that I once applied to perpetuatingfraud."
"I had as much knowledge as any man alive concerning themechanics of forgery, check swindling, counterfeiting, and othersimilar crimes. Ever since I'd been released from prison, I'd oftenfelt that if I directed this knowledge into the right channels, Icould help people a great deal. Every time I went to the store andwrote a check, I would see two or three mistakes made on the partof the clerk or cashier, mistakes that a flimflam artist would takeadvantage of. . . . In a certain sense, I'm still a con artist. I'mjust putting down a positive con these days, as opposed to thenegative con I used in the past. I've merely redirected the talentsI've always possessed. I've applied the same relentless attentionto working on stopping fraud that I once applied to perpetuatingfraud."