Frank Abagnale on Johnny Carson.
You can see why they made his story into a movie-
The opening credits to the movie are pretty damn good-
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Very cool, I watched the entire thing. His story of taking a model to his hotel room and then making $400 out of the deal…
From the YouTube comments, the Pointer Sisters were waiting in the wings to go on, but Johnny found Abagnale so interesting that he continued for two more segments. Pretty cool that he had the power and the presence to make a great show – and the other guests had opportunity to chime in as well. Carson was a rare one for sure.
Did you notice the late George Peppard on the sofa was chain-smoking?
That was fascinating. Abagnale couldn’t do that today, with the internet and other technological advancements, but what a time he lived in. Catch me if you can. Quite frankly, I hate technology.
Oh, and like LCD pointed out, screwing the prostitute twice was absolutely hilarious! Again, couldn’t be done today, but….those were the days.
Loved the movie, Leo and Walken were wonderful. I enjoyed the scene where Hanks got foosed. That was interesting listening to him, he had super confidence.
Seems like a really smart guy, I wonder if he has any aspirations to be fake president?
I know, that jobs already taken.
Hey Stirrin’,
I watched a talk with Abagnale from 2017 and someone asks him that very question and he says it’s easier NOW to do what he did.
Sounds counter-intuitive, but when he explained he was kind of right. Most of what he did involved the firewall of people, which is dicey. Now, it’s all about hacking.
Hey Fur,
I was mainly thinking about the writing of bad checks – regardless of where the routing number indicates it clears from. Today, checks clear in less than 24 hours and in some cases instantaneously, depending on the technology that the retailer utilizes.
And the internet and digital video surveillance technology, which didn’t exist back then, makes it nearly impossible to stay one step ahead of the law like he did.
He depended on the human nature of his victims not questioning his confidence and bullshit, but I just don’t see him being able to pull the same scams today. Human nature never changes, but technology does. So yeah, it’s about hacking – different tactics than what he used back in the day – not quite comparable.
There was a crew of robbers in DC who stole various cards from MUXs. They would come in with no work orders, but told the security desks that the MUX was overheated, or needed the filters cleaned out. In those days if you had a Verizon badge they just let you through.
It turns out they were real telephone men (who else would know the value of MUX cards?) and were stealing cards for a certain supervisor who was selling them to other crooks.
Verizon Security finally figured out the commonality… but the supervisor retired (somehow within minutes of Security finding his name). In Verizon you could retire by calling an 800 number and climb a tree.
By that point Security had everything they needed but nothing a prosecutor would touch. He got away with it. He’s probably running for Governor right now in some shithole state.