A fascinating guy. Interesting and informative on many accounts. I met him at lunch when he spoke in San Francisco at a banking conference my wife was part of. He was the speaker and my wife Donna at that time worked for the bank. We had lunch and enjoyed meeting him there.
One smart dude. i have heard him tell his story a few different times. When he was on the run he got that story down. he must have had to tell it a thousand times. He has paid his dues. i like the fact he has refused three US president pardons,
Also his understanding has made all our lives safer because he went to work to stop people like him. He was a broken, abandoned child desperately trying to survive when he became a criminal
@@karlmonet I checked on Wikipedia for the truth and veracity of his story , it turns out he is nothing but a petty thief , that stole from people that he made friends with , cheques , cash , cameras and cars .He did very few things that he claimed he has done .
@@josephforest7605 That is absolutely correct. Yet I've had people get all upset when presented with the truth. It's cult behavior. People want to believe the lies. Sound familiar?
I thought it was cool also , then I went to Wikipedia and checked the veracity of his story/stories . He is nothing more than a petty thief and stole from people and his friends.
Its brilliant, but not like you think! It's a brilliant work of fiction. A brilliant lie. But alas it's not the truth. Steven Spielberg has a giant egg on his face!
@@sirvidia a couple days after the Johnny Carson episode 2 articles were published calling him out as a liar. He was a ratings hit so many ignored it. Steven Spielberg, Leonardo definitely believed his story. Crazy.
He tells a brilliant story and that is all it is . Check his true story on Wikipedia and the investigation Alan C Logan's conducted on Frank Abagnale .
Frank is entertaining , charming , and charismatic - he is still a excellent con man. If you check his history closely and examine his supposed story you will find he is still an excellent con man. Much of the story of his life is not true or verifiable. Some truth mixed with lots of fiction and fantasy
Houdini had nothing on Frank. Cant get enough of his chats but one thing that bugs me is his youth story changes slightly each time. Would like to see an autobiography written just by him.
@@evaschonfeld5752 yeah but it wasnt written personally by him and is altered in some aspects that differ from the story in his speeches. Like the reason he ran away from home
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I’m glad to know I am not the only one who has noticed this. It is really bothering me. Which is the truth? I just finished reading his book. Other things have contradicted, too. :(
well i didn't read any of his books, the first one was indeed written by a ghost who spent a few hours interviewing him but i believe the next are by his hand. On his story, don't rely much on the movie and more on the talks. Yet through something like 5 speechs i didn't notice anything that went wrong. He went away 'cause his parents were getting divorced -> he started to make bad checks when i went low on money 'cause he couldn't afford life with 16' jobs -> he forged many things -> served sentence in france, sweden then us -> escaped many times -> got a parole to work with the fbi -> been working with them and created a financial security business since
@@richardhowe5583 he said 3 or more president ‘s has tried to give him a pardon. He said that he didn’t deserve a pardon. He loves God and his family and country. American.
People having debunking Frank William Abagnale Jr. for YEARS You should read " Inquiry Shows 'Reformed' Con Man Hasn't Quit Yet " The Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma • Thu, Dec 14, 1978, Pages 1, 32, 33, 36
Leonardo DiCaprio did look young for the movie, and is still a child now. But I did not notice much if at all, any progressive propaganda, so I bought the movie for home. I like movies made before 1950, and usually later movies that are based on true stories, that could only happen in "the land of opportunity". :) I love movies that show a inspiring individual who did great things in a free society. With out that, what do we look up to,---and how is that future?
It's OK to listen to the other side. I certainly do, lest I fall into my own trap of close-mindedness by dismissing thoughts I disagree with as propaganda.
@@gdaviddavis It is not OK to listen, if you know the values are evil. It is not about a "closed mind" that lets nothing new or even proven in, or an "open mind" that considers everything weather it be good or evil. What is important is an "active mind" that learned the difference of good and evil, and rejects evil. You want to compromise with evil? Well, evil always wins the compromise, charting the destination of a future.
If you took 2 minutes off of stroking your patriotic hardon, you could do some very cursory research that demonstrates this guy was and is full of shit. He was a small-time thief who got caught constantly. But he manages to deceive the low IQ brigade.
Here he says he was "just surviving". In an interview for an Australian channel (60 minutes) he told that he cashed 2.5 millions, from which he paid 2 millions back (pretty soon), because he did not spent the money. So you tell me you are hunted by the FBI, cashing thousands of checks, where most of the money you do not use, but just collect!? One would be very dumb to do that. Also 2.5 millions in those years was about 10 times the money worth than it is now. Come on. How plausible is that "story"? He states "I provide no services", but on his homepage says that majority of the work is for the government. On the Bio page he states the majority of work is for large clients. So, does he provide no service? Or most of his not provided service for the government or for large companies!? I do not get it… ;-)
Well, is it that Abagnale was so smart or that people in the 60s were so deferential to guys with greying hair, uniforms or college diplomas? He'd have a hard time downing stewardesses these days - and that's assuming he'd be carried for free in the age of low-cost flights and no deadweight. His biggest trump card was his smooth affable delivery. But most people these days would be suspicious of someone putting so much effort into being nice . . . Wonder what his brothers thought of him ? Must've been hard on them being asked "are you anything to that Abagnale the paperhanger?" all the time.
I earned a 800 credit rating by having small bank loans as a young adult, and paying all the bills on time. I never had a credit card in my 56 year life. I do use a debt card for some stuff,----but I like cash baby,---yea cash!! :) A great bit of advise I wish I had learned when I was younger, "Never take a loan out for anything that is not going to make you money." Pretty solid advise IMO, from the Michigan Hollanders.
Paula Parks was a new Delta stewardess, with whom FA had a huge attraction to. He was able to smooth-talk her parents into inviting him to live with them. Mark Zinder was a publicist and booking agent for FA early in FA career. Parks and Zinder contributed a LOT to the book, that shows most of the FA story is a hoax. Released in December 2020, The book 'The Greatest Hoax on Earth: Catching Truth, While We Can" by Alan C. Logan (Author), Paula Parks (Foreword), Mark Zinder (Foreword The book very thoroughly investigated the life of FA, and clearly shows what parts of the FA book are fiction, and which could be verified. With hundreds of receipts and convincing data, Logan clearly shows that FA has perpetuated a great hoax, and most of his story are absolutely lies upon more lies.
Smart man, well spoken, but still the imaginative story teller. His biggest con is his life story. There are so many improbability’s, holes and exaggerations in this guy’s story the alarm in my BS detector is sounding off. He said his father would come in his room and whisper “I love you Son” every night when he was growing up. That he was an athletic ex marine, yet his dad let him run out of divorce court to the big city, never to be seen again. He was an airplane pilot, passed the bar and became a lawyer, supervise interns and dozens of nurses, cashed 2.5 million in checks in the 80,s, ran a complicated gigantic 4 color press in his s pair time to make checks, worked for the FBI because he informed them it’s easy to tell a phony check by the perforation on one side and shiny ink …. Like they wouldn’t know. Mr. Catch me if you can caught in his fantasy world.
You can ascertain the truth by checking the details in various ways. Start by checking the prisons he claims to have been in and then the law degree can be verified. The Court System can verify the charges brought against him. You are in for a surprise.
He is still a lovable bullshitter ...but harmless enough ...i aim to be like him....only not break the law or hurt people...but like just lying all the time for fun like
No he didn't commit fraud parents do it all the time when they send their kids to college they give them a credit card with they're name on it name and they pay the bill that's not fraud, fraud is when you don't pay the bill!
Exactly , I believed his story for years , I then checked him out on Wikipedia , I also saw the investigation Alan C Logan has done on Frank .Frank's story is nothing but BULL!
I heard him say nothing he did as a teenager was premeditated, but everything he does in his life is heavily premeditated. Pretty sad though.....after multiple thousands of hours rehearsing the story of his life, you think he wouldn't say "uhh" every 5 seconds. I would have caught you fast if I was Tom Hanks. =)
You know nothing about this man. He really is very intelligent and if you had the intelligence to pay attention you would have seen and heard that. Don't be an idiotic troll.
I did not notice the "uhh's" like you did. I think I was concentrating on what he was saying, and I would jut take a short break during the "ahh's". The result was, I paid attention to what he said, and not the uhh's. I feel pretty fresh too, after all those little breaks between understanding. :)
A criminal awarded by the FBI and the government. Movies many times also glorify criminals and movie goers ignore such criminals, like mafia movies and the real life criminals. He should have served all his time in prison and not awarded such privilege. I praise no such criminals. He is still a criminal until he serves his time. The many comments speaking well about him are why the world is a very, very stupid place.
Street smart and wise, he shares his wisdom with us all, especially trusting vulnerable senior citizens.
A fascinating guy. Interesting and informative on many accounts. I met him at lunch when he spoke in San Francisco at a banking conference my wife was part of. He was the speaker and my wife Donna at that time worked for the bank. We had lunch and enjoyed meeting him there.
how many years ago was that
An honest man has nothing to fear, so I am trying hard not to be afraid... great line
Honest?
@@jacobjackson7013 Check his true story , on Wikipedia . He is a true fake .
One smart dude. i have heard him tell his story a few different times. When he was on the run he got that story down. he must have had to tell it a thousand times. He has paid his dues. i like the fact he has refused three US president pardons,
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He's a great example for his three boys and the rest of us.
Also his understanding has made all our lives safer because he went to work to stop people like him. He was a broken, abandoned child desperately trying to survive when he became a criminal
Someone like him is looked at like a hero, someone that helps 1000 homeless isn't even recognized..THEY DESERVE RECOGNITION TOO
Changing 48 to 43 and getting 10 yrs older, in every single interview, is really impressing!
A VERY intelligent man. And had his life went like any other normal kid's, had he not had the desperation, nobody would know his name.
he made it all up tho. theres a book debunking it all by Alan C. Logan
The greatest irony is that he is "Frank" and his opinions on Life is true and open as his life's story!
LOLOLOL Wake up. It's all a lie.ruclips.net/video/-NKHAzY1TWI/видео.html
@@karlmonet I checked on Wikipedia for the truth and veracity of his story , it turns out he is nothing but a petty thief , that stole from people that he made friends with , cheques , cash , cameras and cars .He did very few things that he claimed he has done .
@@josephforest7605 That is absolutely correct. Yet I've had people get all upset when presented with the truth. It's cult behavior. People want to believe the lies. Sound familiar?
@@karlmonet Are you talking about Canada's Prime Minister ?
@@josephforest7605 I lean towards the Trumptard regime but it may describe him as well.
The whole story of frank Jr’s life is brilliant
I thought it was cool also , then I went to Wikipedia and checked the veracity of his story/stories . He is nothing more than a petty thief and stole from people and his friends.
Its brilliant, but not like you think! It's a brilliant work of fiction. A brilliant lie. But alas it's not the truth. Steven Spielberg has a giant egg on his face!
absolutely, it's complete fiction and the lack of fact checking by journalists is shocking
Yes, brilliant BS
@@sirvidia a couple days after the Johnny Carson episode 2 articles were published calling him out as a liar. He was a ratings hit so many ignored it. Steven Spielberg, Leonardo definitely believed his story. Crazy.
I am impressed by his brilliant memory.
He’s told his lies for so long it’s second nature
I don't care what anyone else says this man was born with a brilliant brain, finally put to very good use.
He tells a brilliant story and that is all it is . Check his true story on Wikipedia and the investigation Alan C Logan's conducted on Frank Abagnale .
at the beginning they talk about catch me if you can, and then 12:00 nothing about his personal life 'til 38:00, you're welcome
The fact he took the bar and passed it is totally awesome ha
This has been debunked. He never passed the bar. See his Wikipedia page.
Very informative, thnx!
Cell phone often loses either by accudent or stolen. What Tursona can do about misused cellphone?
Frank is entertaining , charming , and charismatic - he is still a excellent con man. If you check his history closely and examine his supposed story you will find he is still an excellent con man. Much of the story of his life is not true or verifiable. Some truth mixed with lots of fiction and fantasy
Takes a wolf to catch a wolf. Great story
Brilliant life story
had lunch with him in San Francisco, lots of fun
Lucky guy! Who was he impersonating? Just kidding.
Brilliant 😎
I'm so glad he called out Comie
Did he really? If so, that is awesome
Houdini had nothing on Frank. Cant get enough of his chats but one thing that bugs me is his youth story changes slightly each time. Would like to see an autobiography written just by him.
There is. It’s the one that the movie was based on. It’s called, Catch me if you can.
@@evaschonfeld5752 yeah but it wasnt written personally by him and is altered in some aspects that differ from the story in his speeches. Like the reason he ran away from home
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I’m glad to know I am not the only one who has noticed this. It is really bothering me. Which is the truth? I just finished reading his book. Other things have contradicted, too. :(
well i didn't read any of his books, the first one was indeed written by a ghost who spent a few hours interviewing him but i believe the next are by his hand. On his story, don't rely much on the movie and more on the talks. Yet through something like 5 speechs i didn't notice anything that went wrong. He went away 'cause his parents were getting divorced -> he started to make bad checks when i went low on money 'cause he couldn't afford life with 16' jobs -> he forged many things -> served sentence in france, sweden then us -> escaped many times -> got a parole to work with the fbi -> been working with them and created a financial security business since
Frank is the best ever. What a guy!
He's a liar. He was just a petty thief.
Why couldn't he (or someone like him) run for office.
He can't run because he is a convicted felon..of course he could accept a pardon or find a way around that little problem🤔🤔😁🤗
Because he is to good to be a politician. A very honest man.
@@richardhowe5583 he said 3 or more president ‘s has tried to give him a pardon. He said that he didn’t deserve a pardon. He loves God and his family and country. American.
@@Cliffordjuanita547 you are correct my friend 👍👌😁🤗
God protect American from this man!
People having debunking Frank William Abagnale Jr. for YEARS You should read " Inquiry Shows 'Reformed' Con Man Hasn't Quit Yet " The Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma •
Thu, Dec 14, 1978, Pages 1, 32, 33, 36
He hit the nail gov does poor job on security
Leonardo DiCaprio did look young for the movie, and is still a child now. But I did not notice much if at all, any progressive propaganda, so I bought the movie for home. I like movies made before 1950, and usually later movies that are based on true stories, that could only happen in "the land of opportunity". :)
I love movies that show a inspiring individual who did great things in a free society. With out that, what do we look up to,---and how is that future?
It's OK to listen to the other side. I certainly do, lest I fall into my own trap of close-mindedness by dismissing thoughts I disagree with as propaganda.
@@gdaviddavis It is not OK to listen, if you know the values are evil. It is not about a "closed mind" that lets nothing new or even proven in, or an "open mind" that considers everything weather it be good or evil. What is important is an "active mind" that learned the difference of good and evil, and rejects evil. You want to compromise with evil? Well, evil always wins the compromise, charting the destination of a future.
Criminals to keep teaching law enforcement to get sharper
If you took 2 minutes off of stroking your patriotic hardon, you could do some very cursory research that demonstrates this guy was and is full of shit. He was a small-time thief who got caught constantly. But he manages to deceive the low IQ brigade.
Here he says he was "just surviving". In an interview for an Australian channel (60 minutes) he told that he cashed 2.5 millions, from which he paid 2 millions back (pretty soon), because he did not spent the money. So you tell me you are hunted by the FBI, cashing thousands of checks, where most of the money you do not use, but just collect!? One would be very dumb to do that. Also 2.5 millions in those years was about 10 times the money worth than it is now. Come on. How plausible is that "story"?
He states "I provide no services", but on his homepage says that majority of the work is for the government. On the Bio page he states the majority of work is for large clients. So, does he provide no service? Or most of his not provided service for the government or for large companies!? I do not get it… ;-)
What is he referring to RE. James Comey? Was it when Comey said Hillary was not going to be prosecuted?
Well, is it that Abagnale was so smart or that people in the 60s were so deferential to guys with greying hair, uniforms or college diplomas? He'd have a hard time downing stewardesses these days - and that's assuming he'd be carried for free in the age of low-cost flights and no deadweight. His biggest trump card was his smooth affable delivery. But most people these days would be suspicious of someone putting so much effort into being nice . . . Wonder what his brothers thought of him ? Must've been hard on them being asked "are you anything to that Abagnale the paperhanger?" all the time.
We all want to believe we're dealing with an honest person
The true Frank Abagnale story is on Wikipedia and the investigation that Alan C Logan conducted on Frank Abagnale .
Interesting story about this person I watched him on the tonight show
26:29 someone steals your phone holds it up to the atm = free money. Great technology!
how did Spielberg buy the rights to the movie?
sad, note to self need credit card.
I earned a 800 credit rating by having small bank loans as a young adult, and paying all the bills on time. I never had a credit card in my 56 year life. I do use a debt card for some stuff,----but I like cash baby,---yea cash!! :) A great bit of advise I wish I had learned when I was younger, "Never take a loan out for anything that is not going to make you money." Pretty solid advise IMO, from the Michigan Hollanders.
New book out May 2021, his story is preposterous.
21:59 the current world in a nut shell.
do i want peoples to read 10 years from now ? big meaning
Frank Abagnale Jr Is Middle Aged Old Man
Definitely super high IQ
Paula Parks was a new Delta stewardess, with whom FA had a huge attraction to. He was able to smooth-talk her parents into inviting him to live with them. Mark Zinder was a publicist and booking agent for FA early in FA career.
Parks and Zinder contributed a LOT to the book, that shows most of the FA story is a hoax. Released in December 2020, The book 'The Greatest Hoax on Earth: Catching Truth, While We Can" by Alan C. Logan (Author), Paula Parks (Foreword), Mark Zinder (Foreword
The book very thoroughly investigated the life of FA, and clearly shows what parts of the FA book are fiction, and which could be verified. With hundreds of receipts and convincing data, Logan clearly shows that FA has perpetuated a great hoax, and most of his story are absolutely lies upon more lies.
I’m not playing your games anymore
I hope it's not a violation of his previous agreements to get paid during talks like this.
reina del cid in the intro.
This guy is still conning us.
Smart man, well spoken, but still the imaginative story teller. His biggest con is his life story. There are so many improbability’s, holes and exaggerations in this guy’s story the alarm in my BS detector is sounding off. He said his father would come in his room and whisper “I love you Son” every night when he was growing up. That he was an athletic ex marine, yet his dad let him run out of divorce court to the big city, never to be seen again. He was an airplane pilot, passed the bar and became a lawyer, supervise interns and dozens of nurses, cashed 2.5 million in checks in the 80,s, ran a complicated gigantic 4 color press in his s pair time to make checks, worked for the FBI because he informed them it’s easy to tell a phony check by the perforation on one side and shiny ink …. Like they wouldn’t know. Mr. Catch me if you can caught in his fantasy world.
You can ascertain the truth by checking the details in various ways. Start by checking the prisons he claims to have been in and then the law degree can be verified. The Court System can verify the charges brought against him. You are in for a surprise.
ALL IS VANITY;
Proverbs XIX. 9
A false witness shall not be unpunished; and whosoever shall kindle mischief shall perish by it.
@@dancingbanana627 all is Vanity is King Solomon in his old years Book of Ecclesiastes
@@karinlarsen2608 , It was.
Sadly his biggest con continues to this day, telling lies about his life. He never did 95% of the stuff he says he did.
눈빛이 살아있다. 저 나이에 즐기고 있는 것 같다.
He is still a lovable bullshitter ...but harmless enough ...i aim to be like him....only not break the law or hurt people...but like just lying all the time for fun like
willy. judge noy
lol at the end where he admits to committing fraud by applying for credit cards for his children..
No he didn't commit fraud parents do it all the time when they send their kids to college they give them a credit card with they're name on it name and they pay the bill that's not fraud, fraud is when you don't pay the bill!
You've misunderstood that listen again
Man scammed his way into a career at the FBI
Total bs story. He didn’t do hardly any of the things in the movie.
I hope Frank Sr runs for president of United States.
He was a fraud, still making $$ by proudly repeating his tale, to make more $$.! Enough of this ! Nothing he says is worth listening to!
Exactly , I believed his story for years , I then checked him out on Wikipedia , I also saw the investigation Alan C Logan has done on Frank .Frank's story is nothing but BULL!
He's a con man filled with lies , not all true of what he says,
I heard him say nothing he did as a teenager was premeditated, but everything he does in his life is heavily premeditated. Pretty sad though.....after multiple thousands of hours rehearsing the story of his life, you think he wouldn't say "uhh" every 5 seconds. I would have caught you fast if I was Tom Hanks. =)
You know nothing about this man. He really is very intelligent and if you had the intelligence to pay attention you would have seen and heard that. Don't be an idiotic troll.
Don Heil 🤣🤣🤣👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼
He is getting older in fact he is one of the clearest speakers if you look back years ago
Hi Willy please explain in English what you mean'
I did not notice the "uhh's" like you did. I think I was concentrating on what he was saying, and I would jut take a short break during the "ahh's". The result was, I paid attention to what he said, and not the uhh's. I feel pretty fresh too, after all those little breaks between understanding. :)
A criminal awarded by the FBI and the government. Movies many times also glorify criminals and movie goers ignore such criminals, like mafia movies and the real life criminals. He should have served all his time in prison and not awarded such privilege. I praise no such criminals. He is still a criminal until he serves his time. The many comments speaking well about him are why the world is a very, very stupid place.
Wow Marcus aren't you just a unforgiving Christian
He way more than paid for his crimes just in the way he has made all our lives safer with his genius understanding - his attitude
Why couldn't he (or someone like him) run for office.
They do......
@@edstevens4439 LOL Good one.
....didn’t you get enough of tRump?