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Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake
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Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake

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  • Frank Abagnale, Jr., at the Harper's Bazaar annual anti-counterfeiting summit in 2011
    Frank Abagnale, Jr.

    …1980 publication of his memoir, Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake, which tells the story of Abagnale’s various fraudulent activities throughout the 1960s and ’70s. In 2002 a film adaptation of Catch Me If You Can, directed by Steven Spielberg, was released, starring Leonardo…

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    …1980 publication of his memoir, Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake, which tells the story of Abagnale’s various fraudulent activities throughout the 1960s and ’70s. In 2002 a film adaptation of Catch Me If You Can, directed by Steven Spielberg, was released, starring Leonardo…

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