Ask any audience member of the hugely popular Spielberg film Catch Me If You Can, and they will probably admit that they were rooting for the young con artist. Although he was a criminal, Frank Abagnale was also a teenager who was simply too smart for his own good. Born in 1948, Frank W. Abagnale was always a creative child. For example, he would buy items on his father's credit card only to sell them back …showed first 75 words of 1104 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1104 total…been chosen as one of the top five lecturers in America by the International Platform Association and was voted the #1 Campus Speaker in America by the National Entertainment College Conference Association. Also, he wrote a second book relating to fraud prevention, The Art of the Steal, which was published in the fall of 2001. The man known as the "world's greatest con artist," Abagnale's popularity will surely continue to "steal" the spotlight for years to come.