In 2002, the classic movie "Cat and Mouse Game" starring Xiao Lizi (Leonardo) was released, which directly triggered the global reputation, which also became another classic masterpiece of Xiao Lizi. The content of the film is the story of a rebellious genius who commits crimes through his own intellect and goes to pry the world.
But can you think of it? This story actually has a prototype throughout the whole process, and it can even be said that the story of the prototype is even more exciting than in the movie. He was the legendary scam artist of the 20th century, the FBI's most legendary artist, and he was Frank William Abagnale.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="52" > Forged checks and lived a superior life in New York. </h1>
He was born in the United States in 1948 to a merchant family. My mother was the owner of a stationery store, while my mother was a Frenchman. As depicted in the film, he should have been ordinary all his life. But in 1965, the divorce of bi-parents changed everything.
That year, Little Frank was only 16 years old. When the parents and the lawyer asked the underage boy who he chose to talk to, the very individual boy decided not to choose anyone. He ran away from home and decided to go to New York to start his own independent life.
New York has always been a materialistic, fascinating city. But little Frank, because he was a minor, did not have a penny on him, so he was restrained from doing everything here. In order to match his standard of living with the upscale city of New York, he began forging checks.
In the beginning, his methods were very clumsy, which led to his forged checks often being recognized. But in just two months, he learned the advanced method of forging checks. In just two months, his checks had been able to fool countless cheque exchangers.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="75" >2. Play as a pilot and travel the world</h1>
But by chance, he met several crew members and was fascinated by their sassy heroism. Of course, I was fascinated by so much reverence for the pilots. On top of that, the pilot's status allows him to enjoy special treatment when exchanging checks, at least without encountering those strict checks.
Therefore, his dream at this time was to become a pilot. But he didn't want to go to the trouble of training pilots, so our little Frank had his own way. He first pretended to be a reporter to interview a captain of Pan Am in order to gain a deep understanding of Pan Am.
Immediately, he went to a print shop and told the boss that he wanted to purchase employee cards in batches, but asked to make a model first. On this so-called model, there is all the information of Little Frank, which becomes Little Frank's fake pilot certificate.
He then ran to Pan Am's purchasing department with this fake document, falsely claiming that his uniform had fallen off, and he received a new uniform with it. In this way, he deceived himself into the sky with his top deception skills.
On the plane, his calm appearance and Oscar-winning acting skills deceived everyone. No one ever doubted his identity, and he drove straight into the cockpit. But he doesn't fly at all. What to do?
With his amazing eloquence, he and the captain of the plane began to talk nonsense, and through this nonsense, he learned the operation of the co-pilot. With that fake ID, and the operation that Hu Kan learned to do. Little Frank swaggered around the world in nearly 50 states and nearly 20 countries in five years.
Coupled with the loophole in that check, he forged nearly $2.5 million in cheques, committing crazy crimes in more than two dozen countries, and was jointly wanted by the United States, Turkey, italy and other countries. As a result, Abagnale also discovered that as long as his performance was realistic enough, people could believe almost anything.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="76" >, gradually arrogant, and finally arrested</h1>
Therefore, his boldness is getting bigger and bigger. He also forged a medical school diploma and falsely claimed to be the night supervisor of a major hospital. He also forged his law school diploma and became an assistant to the Louisiana Justice. According to his later confession, he had disguised no less than eight professional identities.
While he was disguised, he also caused nearly a thousand check exchangers across the United States to lose their jobs. And all of this, he did before the age of 21. In fact, even FBI agents only dared to believe after years of investigation that it was only a child who caused all this! As a result, he became the youngest wanted man ever wanted by the FBI.
In 1969, the top scam artist who had deceived nearly 20 countries was finally arrested. After his arrest, dozens of countries strongly demanded that he be extradited to his own country for sentencing, but he was eventually extradited to the United States and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="77" >4, ending, from fraudsters to FBI agents</h1>
However, he spent less than 5 years in A.S. prison before being released early. His talent was recognized by the FBI, and after his release from prison, he was directly recruited into the FBI's "Anti-Fraud Major Crimes Unit", contributing his talents to the public and capturing a large number of financial fraud masters
Therefore, even if he no longer cheated his life, it is still very easy. He developed and designed the "anti-counterfeiting security check" with his experience of disguised checks, which made major banks and major companies around the world flock to him. With this proud patent, he receives nearly millions of dollars in royalties each year.
Later, in 1980, he once again wrote his autobiographical novel "There is a way to catch me: the most extraordinary liar is really a legend" that once again sold well all over the world, directly allowing him to get a large amount of money. In the end, the big director Spielberg also looked at this autobiography, bought his film and television adaptation rights, and let him make a lot of money. And Spielberg's movie is the famous "Cat and Mouse Game".
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