The master imposter, forger, con artist, and best-selling author of Catch Me If You Can draws on his own personal experiences and exploits to describe the tricks of the scam trade, offering valuable advice on how to identify and outsmart perpetrators of fraud and how to safeguard oneself against identity theft, the misuse of Social Security numbers, and more. Reprint.novelists, including Kafka, and considers character, action, and the role of historical events in fiction. Reprint.