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1: Frank Abagnale | Scam Me If You Can

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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The Secret of Forgery

When i first started making checks, i would go to these stationery stores and buy what they called blank counter checks that came in a pad. Back before micka in coating and all that, you could just write out the second and put your account number on it. And i would type that, as i said in the book, on an i bm wheel writer, and i typed the bank's name in, over and over to look like it was actually printed on there. I mean, if you looked at the check, you jave said, you got to be kidding, this is junk. But they only saw that uniform. They paid no attention to the check. They just

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