Some of the stories Frank Abagnale shared during his lecture Wednesday:

   » FILL'ER UP - "I went into a bank with five $20 bills and opened a checking account. I noticed the teller didn't give me any deposit slips, and when I asked her about that, she said I could go over to this table and get a few, then fill in my checking account number by hand."

So he grabbed a stack of the deposit slips, then bought a machine to magnetically encode his account number on them.

"Then, I took the slips back to the bank and put them on the table," he said. "No one noticed, and all day long, people were making their deposits to my account. By the end of the day, I had something like $40,000. Needless to say, I made a withdrawal."

   » HITCHIN' A RIDE - "I may have flown more than 1 million air miles for free, dressed as a PanAm co-pilot, but I never flew on PanAm," Abagnale said. "Because I was afraid someone would say, 'I've been based out of San Francisco for 23 years and I don't remember you.' "

Abagnale explained he claimed to be a "dead head" on the flights, that is, an airline employee who catches a free ride home in the cockpit of another airline's plane.

   » OUT OF ORDER - Abagnale told about a con he pulled at a bank's night-deposit box in an airport terminal.

"I went to the airport at night, and saw as everyone was closing up, all the businesses took their deposits and receipts, locked them in bank bags, walked them down the hall to the bank and dropped them in the night-deposit box."

He came back the next night, wearing a rented bank guard uniform.

"I put a sign on the night deposit box that said, 'Box out of order, leave deposits with guard on duty,' " Abagnale said. "And everyone did it. I was the only nervous guy, standing there thinking, 'How in the hell do you have a night-deposit box be out of order? It's like a mailbox, it's just a chute.' "

   » THE VALUE OF A DADDY - "Being a real man has nothing to do with accomplishments," Abagnale said. "There are plenty of fathers in this world ... but very few daddies. I've done nothing greater than be a good husband, being a good father, being a good daddy."