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Dude scammed $2.5M before 21 years old...


Meet Frank Abagnale.

He SCAMMED $2.5M before he was 21 years old.

Here’s the whole story:

Our friend Frankie was born in 1948 in Bronxville, New York.

Chill town.

He was the third of four kids.

Dad was a stationery shop owner.

Mom stayed home with the kiddos.

Fam was good. Money was good. Life was great.

UNTIL FRANKIE TURNED 16…

His parents started to hate each other…

Pissin’ and moanin’ over every little thing after Frankie’s dad got home.

It’s cause the Stationary biz was starting to collapse…

No moolah makes Frankie’s dad a sad sad man.

(As it would for ALL men 🤣)

His parents ended up getting a divorce…

And while in court for the divorce, the judge asked Frankie…

“Who do you want to live with? Your mom or your dad?”

And our boy Frankie said…

MYSELF, WOMAN!

LOL!

Seriously.

Kid said “Neither. Dueces ✌️”

Ran away from home at 16 years old with $100 in his pocket.

Like a freakin’ G.

But at 16, Frankie was tall, mature & more well dressed than anyone else his age.

So he forged his driver’s license to say 26 instead of 16.

Then he got a GENIUS idea...

What if I make a bunch of different licenses...

With all kinds of different names and addresses...

He took those licenses to different banks and opened up accounts under false names and started writing bad checks.

At 16…

DUDE CASHED A MILLION BUCKS IN FRAUD CHECKS!

(Not bad for a young squirt)

Then he noticed something even MORE POWERFUL than a fake license.

A uniform.

Frankie was at an Airport when he saw a Pan Am Pilot walking through.

Nobody stopped him. Nobody asked for credentials. Nobody questioned him.

They let him go anywhere!

(Not to mention all the ladies FLOCKED to a man in uniform)

So Frankie calls Pan Am…

And he’s like, “Yo, it’s ya boy Frank Daddy. The man. The myth. The legend. Kay? Listen... my uniform got lost in transit. Busy guy, ya know? I need you to ship me a new one to my hotel. Here’s the addy:”

AND THE IDIOTS DID IT!

Shipped him a brand new uniform!

Of course, he puts it on, looks at himself in the mirror and says —

”Oh the checks I'm about to cashhhhhhhhh muhahahahahahah”

🤣🤣🤣

He played this Fake Pilot thing for 5 YEARS.

Cashin’ checks under a bunch of forged names.

$2.5M worth of checks to be exact.

Which is like having $29M in TODAYS money!

(Almost enough to afford milk & butter in the states now 🤣)

But that scam had a shelf life.

Airlines started to cross reference paper trails and things weren’t adding up…

Frankie got sc’rred.

Real sc’rred.

He was like…

Oh snap.

Folks be eyin’ ya boy!

FRANKIE OUT!

So he bolted and got out the whole biz ASAP!

While he was on the road lookin’ for his next Con…

He saw an ad in the local newpaper that Brigham Young University (BYU) was looking for a new sociology professor.

And for WHATEVER reason…

Frankie was like — YA BOY GOT DAT ON LOCK!

Then forged a transcript and diploma from Columbia University and interviewed with the dean.

The dean was droolin’ over Frankie. 🤤

Thought he was a fine young man, a fine one!

Hired him ON THE SPOT.

Didn’t even verify his credentials 🤣

Then...

Frankie taught the class for an entire YEAR!

141 students!

Think about this…

Frankie had NO CLUE about Sociology.

No skills in teaching. Didn’t get a degree. Ran away from home at 16.

And he shows up to teach a 90 minute freaking lecture three days a week to a 141 people…

AT A LEGIT COLLEGE UNIVERSITY!

Well eventually Frankie’s run had come to an end.

The popo got their crap together and found a massive paper trail of cashola missing from banks with bad checks.

They put the names together and found our boy Frankie!

Locked him up.

And he did 17 years in prison!

But while he was in prison, a KSJ reporter asked him…

“Of all the cons you did — I gotta know — how in the world did you teach some of the smartest college students in the nation sociology for an entire year without getting caught!?”

His response…

Bro…

He says…

“Easy. I only had to be one chapter ahead of them.”

Don’t sleep on that, bru bru!!!

Because a couple of weeks ago, I sent an email about how everyone on my email list should have a Low-Ticket Community!

$9-49/mo.

On Skool.

Focusing on one HOBBY or SKILL.

And in that email, I asked people to reply with WHY YOU WOULDN’T DO THAT?

WHAT’S STOPPING YOU?

And 99.9% of people that responded said:

Cause I’m good enough to teach.

My question to you is…

Are you ONE CHAPTER ahead?

Can you do ONE thing everyday towards ONE goal?

If so, you are further than 99% of people in your niche and therefore…

PEOPLE WOULD ENJOY YOU SHOWING THEM WHAT YOU’RE LEARNING!

And the best way to document and teach people this stuff is…

With a Low Ticket Community!

Which is exactly with I wrote a WHOPPIN’ 45 pages for this month’s CopyCreator Monthly Newsletter!!!

Correctly titled…

"How To Get Paid Every Single Day With A Low-Ticket Community!"

I walk you through…

*The structure to set up before launching your community

*What to do to get people to buy during "pre-launch"

*The exact step-by-step guidance to setup for your first 30 days

*How to retain your new members at a record breaking rate (that I’ve never seen anyone else do)

And a whole lotta mo!

(Tasty teasers down below) 😉

This newsletter comes INCLUDED with your $50/mo subscription to CopyCreator Club.

But you must subscribe BEFORE Saturday, February 21st at 11:59PM EST.

THAT IS THE DEADLINE ☝️

After that, you will NOT be able to access this month’s newsletter (until I sell back issue copies — which will be at least DOUBLE the price)

CLICK THIS LINK TO SUBSCRIBE NOW AND GUARANTEE YOUR NEWSLETTER SPOT.

Not only that…

But I’m going to do something I’ve never done.

And may never do again.

But I am going to make you an…

OUTRAGEOUS GUARANTEE! 😮

If you subscribe to CopyCreator and I do not BLOW YOU AWAY with value from my club and newsletter...

I will let you keep this month’s issue AND give you your money back.

That’s how confident I am that not only will you love the info, but you’ll love the community too.

BUT THERE’S ONE CAVEAT…

If I have even an inkling that you're a pirate (or someone I don’t want you in my club)

I will kick you out immediately, ban you from my list…

And upload your name, phone number, credit card information & email address to government websites where they will spam you with mail & calls about terrorist updates for the rest of your life.

Hahahaha.

(But seriously I’ve done it before and I'll do it again 🤣)

Enough dilly dally!

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Newsletter drops February 22nd after midnight!

Your copywriting friend,

Alin “Cookin’ Up Checks Like Frankie Except For Real Not Fraud And Stuff” Dragu

P.S. Here are some tasty teasers of what’s inside this months newsletter…

*The tiny little reason Slack is worth $12B more than Discord (even though they do the exact same thing) and how you can “swipe” their strategy for your community

*The “Deadline With _______” method that makes your promo emails not only get more members… but feel GENEROUS instead of pushy.

*A sneaky “T_______” trick (used by every six-figure hobby community on Skool) that makes cancellations nearly impossible after someone hits the 30-day mark. (And it has NOTHING to do with content quality)

*A tedious pre-launch tactic (that literally NO ONE does) that fills your community before you even open the doors. (It doesn’t scale, it takes forever, but it’s worth its weight in gold)

*The “backwards” three-step structure (stolen from offline hobby groups) that makes people STAY subscribed month after month — even when they barely use your content.

*Why I send an “anti-promotional” style email (that makes virtually no sales)

*How long you should promote your low-ticket community before launching (and the 10 stories you should be telling to wet their little beaks…)

*How to engineer an army of salesmen that sell your community for you (with this ONE sentence)

*Why a $5/month chess community is somehow worth MORE than a $1997 course

*The Back-Asswards Market Research tactic I did to help me get 40 new club members within 72 hours of launching my club

*The IDIOTIC mistake I made on “Launch Day” with my club (and what you should do instead to launch bigger than me!)

*Why I stopped launching courses and immediately pivoted to a community (after a weird convo with my accountant)

*The “3F Framework” a calligraphy teacher used to pull in $129,600 per year while working less than 10 hours a week

*How to engineer your community so people stay for something OTHER than your content (And no, it’s not for results…)

*The ONE book that I based my entire community growth strategy on… that has NOTHING to do with communities!

*The only two reasons people cancel community subscriptions (and how to fix both)

The MSA System that *almost ruined my entire club model (until I started using it properly!)

*Why launching a book with my Club was quite possibly a massive mistake (and what you should do instead)

*How to combine the system from Chronicles #1 with the system from Chronicles #2 — and why this two-punch combo is UNFAIRLY NASTY for building a 2-hour workday

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