Identity Crisis (Comics)

I was careful to take the envelope with me when I left. I had made certain that she noticed the wrapper, and it had patently enhanced her faith in the check. The transaction also verified a suspicion I had long entertained: itБЂ™s not how good a check looks but how good the person behind the check looks that influences tellers and cashiers. I went back to my motel room and labored late into the night concocting several more of the sham checks, all in the amount of $500 or more, and the following day I successfully passed all of them in different downtown or suburban banks. Based on my knowledge of the check-routing procedures used by banks, I calculated I could spend two more days in Eureka making and dropping the bum expense checks and then have three days lead time for travel before the first one was returned as a counterfeit. But an identity crisis, which I experienced periodically, forced me to revise my timetable. I never immersed myself so deeply in an assumed identity that I forgot I was really Frank Abagnale, Jr ...»