1) James Barry was a surgeon in the British Army in the early 1800s who lived as a man in order to have a career, even though after death it was revealed Barry was biologically female.
2) Frédéric Bourdin successfully posed as a 15-year-old student in France for a period of time before being exposed when a teacher recognized him from a TV program about imposters.
3) Frank Abagnale committed various frauds between the ages of 16-21, including posing as a pilot and doctor, before being arrested and later finding legitimate work helping to prevent fraud.
1) James Barry was a surgeon in the British Army in the early 1800s who lived as a man in order to have a career, even though after death it was revealed Barry was biologically female.
2) Frédéric Bourdin successfully posed as a 15-year-old student in France for a period of time before being exposed when a teacher recognized him from a TV program about imposters.
3) Frank Abagnale committed various frauds between the ages of 16-21, including posing as a pilot and doctor, before being arrested and later finding legitimate work helping to prevent fraud.
1) James Barry was a surgeon in the British Army in the early 1800s who lived as a man in order to have a career, even though after death it was revealed Barry was biologically female.
2) Frédéric Bourdin successfully posed as a 15-year-old student in France for a period of time before being exposed when a teacher recognized him from a TV program about imposters.
3) Frank Abagnale committed various frauds between the ages of 16-21, including posing as a pilot and doctor, before being arrested and later finding legitimate work helping to prevent fraud.
1) James Barry was a surgeon in the British Army in the early 1800s who lived as a man in order to have a career, even though after death it was revealed Barry was biologically female.
2) Frédéric Bourdin successfully posed as a 15-year-old student in France for a period of time before being exposed when a teacher recognized him from a TV program about imposters.
3) Frank Abagnale committed various frauds between the ages of 16-21, including posing as a pilot and doctor, before being arrested and later finding legitimate work helping to prevent fraud.
James Barry was a surgeon in the British Army. Having graduated from Edinburg University in 1812, he served in India, South Africa and the West Indies. Although he was a difficult and argumentative person who was always getting into C Frank Abagnale. trouble with his superiors, Barry worked hard to In 1964, at the age of 16 Frank Abagnale ran away improve conditions for the troops and for ordinary from home to New York City. He used various people wherever he was staying. For example, cons to get money from banks, changing his when he was stationed in Cape Town, South identity when they discovered his tricks. For two Africa, he developed ways of improving the years he lived as Frank Williams and pretended to town’s supply of clean water. be an airline pilot with Pan Am. Wearing a pilot’s Barry retired in 1864 – apparently against his uniform which he had tricked Pan Am head office wishes – and returned to England. After his death into giving him, he used his forged ID card to in 1865, the post-mortem examination revealed travel around the world free on Pan Am planes. that James Barry was in fact a woman. It is not Later, he changed his name to Frank Conners, clear why Barry chose to live as a man. Nobody is moved to Georgia, and posed as a Doctor, even even sure what Barry’s real name was. But one though he had no qualifications. When his fiancée thing is certain: at that time, a woman could not realised that he was an impostor, she called the have had a career as an army doctor. Being an police and Frank had to disappear. But he soon re- impostor allowed Barry to help thousands of emerged with a forged Law Diploma from people around the world. Harvard University and got a job working for the Attorney General in Louisiana. Over a period of five years, Abagnale used eight different identities B Frédéric Bourdin and committed fraud in 26 different countries. His luck finally ran out in 1969, when he was arrested The pupils at Jean Monnet College in Pau, in France. After spending several years in jail, Southwest France, believed everything that their Abagnale was released and began a new, new 15-year-old classmate, Francisco, told them. legitimate, and very successful carrer as a He claimed that he had just arrived in France from consultant to banks on how to prevent fraud. He Spain. He said that he had been an orphan since also wrote a best-selling autobiography which was 2000, when his parents had died in a acr crash, and made into – Catch Me If You Can – starring that he had spent three months in a coma after the Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks. Abagnale accident. But it was all a lie. Francisco was in fact himself appears briefly in it but, of course, he does a 31-year-old Frenchman called Frédéric Bourdin. not play himself The school only realised the truth when one of the teachers saw Bourdin on Tv, in a documentary about impostors. The school principal, Claire Chardoume, said that the pupil had appeared a bit older than his classmates but she also said that Bourdin had played the part of a 15-year-old brilliantly. ‘He told me he had awful scars which he wanted to hide. I gave him special permission to wear a cap. That is how he concealed his true age’, she said. Bourdin has confessed that he loved the attention he could get by pretending to be a youngster. ‘In Pau, I got what I wanted. I loved the kids and the people who took care of them. They treated me like one of them’. obtuve lo que quería. Me encantaban los niños A doctor james barry y las personas que los cuidaban. Me trataron James Barry era un cirujano en el ejército como a uno de ellos ". británico. Tras graduarse en la Universidad de Edinburg en 1812, se desempeñó en India, Sudáfrica y las Indias Occidentales. Aunque era una persona difícil y discutidora que C Frank Abagnale. siempre estaba teniendo problemas con sus En 1964, a la edad de 16 años, Frank Abagnale superiores, Barry trabajó duro para mejorar las se escapó de su casa a la ciudad de Nueva condiciones para las tropas y para la gente York. Usó varias desventajas para obtener común dondequiera que se alojaba. Por dinero de los bancos, cambiando su identidad ejemplo, cuando estaba destinado en Ciudad cuando descubrieron sus trucos. Durante dos del Cabo, Sudáfrica, desarrolló formas de años vivió como Frank Williams y se hizo mejorar el suministro de agua potable de la pasar por un piloto de línea aérea con Pan Am. ciudad. Usando un uniforme de piloto que había Barry se retiró en 1864, aparentemente contra engañado a la oficina central de Pan Am para sus deseos, y regresó a Inglaterra. Después de que se lo entregara, usó su tarjeta de su muerte en 1865, el examen post mortem identificación falsificada para viajar por todo reveló que James Barry era en realidad una el mundo gratis en aviones de Pan Am. Más mujer. No está claro por qué Barry eligió vivir tarde, cambió su nombre a Frank Conners, se como hombre. Nadie está seguro de cuál era el mudó a Georgia y se hizo pasar por médico, a verdadero nombre de Barry. Pero una cosa es pesar de que no tenía calificaciones. Cuando segura: en ese momento, una mujer no podría su novia se dio cuenta de que él era un haber tenido una carrera como médico del impostor, ella llamó a la policía y Frank tuvo ejército. Ser un impostor permitió a Barry que desaparecer. Pero pronto volvió a emerger ayudar a miles de personas en todo el mundo con un Diploma de Derecho falsificado de la Universidad de Harvard y consiguió un trabajo para el Fiscal General en Louisiana. Durante un período de cinco años, Abagnale utilizó B Frédéric Bourdin ocho identidades diferentes y cometió fraude Los alumnos del Colegio Jean Monnet en Pau, en 26 países diferentes. Su suerte finalmente se en el sudoeste de Francia, creyeron todo lo que agotó en 1969, cuando fue arrestado en les contó su nuevo compañero de clase de 15 Francia. Después de pasar varios años en la años, Francisco. Afirmó que acababa de llegar cárcel, Abagnale fue liberado y comenzó una a Francia desde España. Dijo que había sido carrera nueva, legítima y muy exitosa como huérfano desde el año 2000, cuando sus padres consultora para los bancos sobre cómo murieron en un accidente de acrílico, y que prevenir el fraude. También escribió una había pasado tres meses en coma después del autobiografía de gran éxito que se realizó en accidente. Pero todo fue una mentira. Catch Me If You Can, protagonizada por Francisco era, de hecho, un francés de 31 años Leonardo DiCaprio y Tom Hanks. El mismo llamado Frédéric Bourdin. La escuela solo se Abagnale aparece brevemente en él pero, por dio cuenta de la verdad cuando uno de los supuesto, no juega solo. maestros vio a Bourdin en la televisión, en un documental sobre impostores. La directora de la escuela, Claire Chardoume, dijo que el he was a surgeon in the British Army who after alumno parecía un poco mayor que sus graduating from college in 1812 worked in India compañeros de clase, pero también dijo que was a difficult person who had problems with his Bourdin había desempeñado el papel de un superiors working hard to improve the conditions joven de 15 años de manera brillante. "Me dijo of the troops and for the people in commonwhen que tenía horribles cicatrices que quería they were in Cape Town South Africa developed ocultar. Le di un permiso especial para usar una gorra. Así es como él ocultó su verdadera ways to improve the supply of drinking water city edad ", dijo. Bourdin ha confesado que le he retired in 1864 Apparently against their wishes encantaba la atención que podía obtener and returned to England after his death in 1865 haciéndose pasar por un joven. "En Pau, they were surprised that it was a woman