Frank Abagnale Research Paper

Fraud is a major problem that has affected and hurt the American banking system for decades; however thanks to new technology and fraud prevention programs, fraud has been harder to get away with it. Thanks to Frank Abagnale Jr.’s first hand experience with fraud has helped him with his 40 plus years with the FBI, but the books he wrote, and the fraud protection agency he set up, has greatly helped shape the way check fraud prevention and catching the people who do it happen today. Fraud is defined as “the intentional deception of a person, business, or government agency for the purpose of stealing property, money, or causing financial injury in other ways,” (White-Collar Crime). It is because of Abagnale that so many people are protected

At the young age of 16 he left his house in Bronxville, New York and went to New York City. He started off with a job, but he was not paid enough. Thinking it was his age that was the problem, he altered his driver's license so that he was then 26, though it was not the age that was the problem, but the fact he was a high school dropout (Abagnale Catch 21-23). He started living off of checks to his bank account that was empty (Abagnale Catch 25). After realizing that the police will catch him soon, he got a co-pilot's uniform, fake copies of all the credentials, a new ID’s, and went around as a co-pilot riding the jump for flights around the world, and rooming with his many flight attendant girlfriends whenever he needed to lay low (Abagnale Catch 28-44). After almost being caught (Abagnale Catch 71), he became a pediatrician and stayed as one for a year before worrying that he could cause great harm to those who were under his care (Abagnale Catch 86-96). It should be said that he let his interns and nurses do all the work, and was not the one doing the life threatening work (Abagnale Catch 93). Abagnale then saut a law degree. The high school dropout who never went to college passed the bar exam, though he did fail the first two times he took it, and became a lawyer for nine months (Abagnale Catch 104-109). Posing as a college professor was next and he did that for 3 months (Abagnale Catch 113-114). After a mishap with a check, he had to pose as an FBI agent who was looking for him for a day, and abruptly left the position. (Abagnale Catch 125-127). After he went to several different countries, he was caught and served his time in many different jails across the world before being released. (Abagnale Catch