10 Ways To Get Stupidly Rich (That We Learnt From Movies)
3. Forge Checks And Pretend To Be Someone Youre Not - Catch Me If You Can
Leonardo diCaprio has already demonstrated how, if you're good looking and cocksure enough, you can make millions defrauding people on Wall Street - with Steven Spielberg's Catch Me if You Can he once again pulls out the charm in order to recount the exploits of real-life con artist Frank Abagnale. Frank starts his life of crime with petty cons but it doesn't take long before he's rolling in the cash earned from his various scams, not least forging Pan Am airline payroll receipts and stealing nearly $3 million. Of course, it doesn't take long for the authorities to get onto his trail, so Frank assumes a number of identities in order to evade capture. After all, if you're being pursued by an agent from the FBI what better way to throw them off the scent than to pretend to be a Secret Service agent? Inevitably, Frank Abagnale ends up paying for his deceptions, but not before he's spent a few years living the high life surrounded by beautiful women and piles of cash. If you can reduce your sentence drastically by working in the fraud department of the FBI and lead a happy life with a wife and three children, it's hard to argue that the risks aren't worth it. An untold number of other convicted fraudsters and con men would no doubt disagree.
