Whether you're earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it's very important to protect your credit rating.

It's not what a man has but what a man is that's important.

If you believe you have a foolproof system, you've failed to take into consideration the creativity of fools.

Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular.

My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent.

I look at my life today at 69 and I think about all the things that have happened after all my imprisonment. We truly live in an amazing country, America is where you can do things and pay your debt back to society and literally change your life if you want to.

What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.