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‘Catch Me If You Can’ Con Man Says Technology Aids Fraud

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Technology makes it a lot easier to cheat today, according to reformed con artist Frank Abagnale.

The man who made $2.5 million in the 1960s as a teenager faking identities as an airline pilot, lawyer and doctor now works with the FBI and others on cybercrime. He even had a role in the investigation into last year’s JPMorgan Chase & Co. hack, he said in an interview this week near Trafalgar Square in London.