HomeKrimidexbillionaire fraudConceptbillionaire fraudDefinitionRelated articlesFrank Abagnale: The Con Artist Who Became His Own Greatest HoaxFrank Abagnale Jr., arrested in Georgia in November 1970 for passing fake payroll checks, built a decades-long career on claims of elaborate cons that investigators say never happened. The gap between his memoir and the documented record reveals how a real criminal became fiction's most celebrated impostor.
