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The man, who was dressed in a smart black suit, walked into the Asda supermarket in Manchester and posed as the manager of ...
Ten years ago this month a sharp-suited man walked into an Asda supermarket – he went behind the counter of the Bureau de Change at a store and coolly posed as its manager ...
The Asda thief even dished out handfuls of Euros and other currencies in exchange for sterling to unsuspecting customers. He later gained access to a safe and emptied cash into a bag before walking ...
Between the ages of 16 and 21, Frank Abagnale Jr. successfully impersonated a Pan Am pilot on flights to over 80 different ...
Named after the Italian painter Leonardo da Vinci because his mother felt him kick during her pregnancy while looking at a da ...
Steven Spielberg's stylish caper Catch Me If You Can, in which Leonardo DiCaprio plays real-life con artist Frank Abagnale Jr., is at times hilarious, other times a touch sad, but altogether a ...
In Steven Spielberg’s hands, does it really matter how much of Frank Abagnale Jr.’s real-life crime story is real?
Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Frank Abagnale Jr., a teenage con artist who successfully poses as a pilot, doctor, and lawyer, cashing forged checks worth millions.
Abagnale's early years of forging checks and impersonating airline pilots was the subject of the 2002 motion picture Catch Me If You Can, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.