The most famous American forgery

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Frank Williams Abagnell (born 1948) is the most famous American counterfeiter known in history. He began in the sixties at the age of 16, using fake checks on Pan American Airlines. For three years he traveled to more than 250 countries for more than 250 free flights. Best hotels and all expenses incurred by the company.
During these trips, four African presidents - Liberia, Malawi, Zambia and Gabon - convinced them that he was a World Bank envoy and that he knew of their thefts and secret accounts in Switzerland. The presidents gave him a total of $ 2 million in bribes in exchange for his silence !!
When he complained about the airline, he fled and forged his papers and changed his name and took the position of pediatrician in a hospital in the United States and linked his friendship with a real doctor was sharing the apartment and became supervisors of the trainees in the hospital temporarily, but after a year almost discovered when he left a baby dies Suffocated because he did not understand medical matters,
He fled the hospital and Frank forged papers as a law student at Harvard University. He got the job of Attorney General of Louisiana and also left the job because there was a young man who hated him and inquired about his past. He took a risk and moved to France,
He used fake papers professionally and worked for Air France when French police arrested him in 1969 and asked 12 countries of those who had committed fraud and betrayal handed over to them.
After a two-day trial, he was first imprisoned and admitted to the prison of Perpignan, sentenced to one year and reduced by the judge by six months. He was then extradited to Sweden and imprisoned for six months. He was handed over to America by a heavily guarded plane amid joy of victory, but Frank asked them to spend the time. He entered the plane and landed on the runway by less than three meters.
But days later he was arrested and during his arrest, US intelligence officers were so impressed with his intelligence that they asked him to help them detect fraud and fraud in the markets and actually succeeded with them and completed his sentence in the US intelligence building! Now works as an anti-fraud consultant within his company ..

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