The Man Who Fooled Hollywood, the FBI, and You

Oct 23, 2025
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Frank Abagnale claims he became an airline pilot, a licensed lawyer, a doctor, and a university professor...all before the age of 21.
With bestselling books, a $350 million Hollywood film, and global speaking tours…
Frank Abagnale built an entire career on one premise:
That Catch Me If You Can is a true story.

But what if I told you the story everyone thinks they know…
is nothing like the truth Frank Abagnale has hidden from the public for 40 years.
Until now.

"The Greatest Hoax on Earth: Catching Truth, While We Can"
(This ISN'T an affiliate link, the proceeds go to Alan himself)
https://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Hoax-...

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Sources

This video wouldn't have been possible without Alan Logan! I consider him a friend after our email exchanges back and forth researching this video. Alan deserves all the credit for the years of research he put into discovering this story. His work into fetching the FOIA requests, national archive documents...even across international lines is that old school hard journalism that isn't seen as much as it should these days.
All of the court records, police transcripts, letters and archive documents were sent over by him for this video. I can't thank him enough for that.

His book, his archival evidence and emails of archival documents were the main resource for debunking a majority of the claims Frank Abagnale makes.

The story at the end of the video of Frank performing the physical on the 7 year old boy, was a story Alan came across after he had published the book "The Greatest Hoax on Earth: Catching Truth, While We Can". Alan investigated the story, found the family, double checked the facts.

I've been wanting to make this video for a few years after I read Alan Logans book...I couldn't put it down once i started reading...
There is so much more to this story that i didn't cover in this video (or else it would of been 4 hours long)
To read Alan's book uncovering Frank's real story
"The Greatest Hoax on Earth: Catching Truth, While We Can"
(This ISN'T an affiliate link, the proceeds go to Alan himself)
https://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Hoax-...

Here are other sources I used for this video
For all the newspaper clippings i used they are on my Newspaper,com account
https://www.newspapers.com/profile/vi...

https://louisianavoice.com/2021/04/26...

https://nypost.com/2023/03/13/catch-m...

PrivacyGuard/Affinion SEC lawsuits
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/da...
https://www.consumeraffairs.com/priva...
https://www.commerce.senate.gov/servi...

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Music Used

LEMMiNO - Cipher
• LEMMiNO - Cipher (BGM)
CC BY-SA 4.0

LEMMiNO - Firecracker
• LEMMiNO - Firecracker (BGM)
CC BY-SA 4.0

LEMMiNO - Siberian
• LEMMiNO - Siberian (BGM)
CC BY-SA 4.0

LEMMiNO - Encounters
• LEMMiNO - Encounters (BGM)
CC BY-SA 4.0

Epidemic Sounds Playlist of tracks used
https://www.epidemicsound.com/playlis...