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Imagine working with a man who is the subject of a film by Steven Spielberg. Talk about marketing potential and free publicity!

Progency Marketing Innovations, Nashville, Tenn., finds itself in exactly that situation.

Progency, which provides turnkey marketing strategies for banks, credit unions and mortgage companies, recently formed an alliance with a fraud prevention expert, Frank W. Abagnale, to provide security and fraud protection services to financial institutions.

Before Abagnale started work for the "good guys," he had a colorful career on the other side of the tracks. As one of the world's most notorious confidence men, he cashed an estimated $2.5 million in fraudulent checks in every state and 26 foreign countries. Between the ages of 16 and 21, he successfully posed as an airline pilot, attorney, college professor and pediatrician. Apprehended by French police when he was 21...