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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Frank Abagnale’s innocent youth ended when his passion for women sparked criminal impulses in him.
Chapter 3: Frank’s earliest schemes involved cashing fake checks and posing as an airline pilot too.
Chapter 4: Lax regulations and a talent for observation (plus a hefty measure of luck) let Frank keep up his con game successfully.
Chapter 5: Frank pretended to be not only a pilot but a lawyer, a professor, and even a doctor.
Chapter 6: After years of thrilling and profitable cons, Frank was eventually caught and then jailed.
Description
Frank Abagnale’s story of swindling millions of dollars from unwitting victims while posing as a pilot, lawyer and professor is the stuff of legend. In Catch Me If You Can (1980), he tells his tale.
Who Should Listen
True-crime nerds
Bank tellers or airline industry workers
Fans of the movie adaptation of this thrilling story
About the Authors
Frank Abagnale, known as a former confidence trickster, is now a professional consultant and lecturer at the US Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Financial Crimes Unit.