SCOTLAND’S most audacious teenage scammer became such an adept con artist he could persuade credit card firms to give him fraudulent plastic in his own name. Elliot “Fiddle” Castro came up with the ploy in a bid to maintain a lavish lifestyle funded by thousands of card details he nicked during an astonishing crime spree . 3 Elliot Castro in the new documentary Credit: BBC 3 In his younger years, at the height of his crimes Credit: BBC It is just one of many jaw-dropping confessions Castro, of Glasgow, makes in a warts-and-all documentary about becoming a globetrotting rip-off merchant by 18.
And at 20, he’d spent more than £1million conned from innocent people and was wanted by cops at home and abroad. Castro, now 41, recounts his astonishing years as an elusive kid conman in the BBC’s Confessions Of A Teenage Fraudster. He says: “By aged 20, I’d spent well over a million pounds of other people’s money all over the world.
Once you’ve had a taste of something nice it’s very hard to go back. You don’t do all of that without getting banged up now and then. Read more Scottish news LOCHED AND LOADED Loch Ness Monster hunters turn to AI in bid to find mythical beast 'STRONG ACTION' Sturgeon would have been suspended from Labour over arrest, says Starmer “But no level of guilt or length of sentence had ever persuaded me to stop.
” Castro, who was born in Aberdeen , first got involved in crime after landing a job at a call centre selling mobile phones. Aged.