confessions of a teenage fraudster

[asfault]

BB1 /IPLAYER.
Amazing 3 part on the early life of Elliot Castro.
A british catch me if you can.
Defo worth a watch.

[droopsnoot]

I started watching it, but I didn't get to the end of the first episode. I can't quite place exactly what turned me off it, and maybe it got more interesting as it went on, but for me it was disappointing.

[asfault]

droopsnoot said:

I started watching it, but I didn't get to the end of the first episode. I can't quite place exactly what turned me off it, and maybe it got more interesting as it went on, but for me it was disappointing.

Id watch it. its ramps up and the audacity of what he does and gets away with beggers belief.

[Gladers01]

asfault said:

droopsnoot said:

I started watching it, but I didn't get to the end of the first episode. I can't quite place exactly what turned me off it, and maybe it got more interesting as it went on, but for me it was disappointing.

Id watch it. its ramps up and the audacity of what he does and gets away with beggers belief.

It's worth persevering with and became faster paced once the police are on his tail showing how he jumped bail several times with his houdini style escapades coupled with his eventual capture plus the short time he spent in prison. It could have been condensed into two hours, the first showing the fraud involved and the second hour trying to evade capture leading to the prison sentence

[tim0409]

I watched and enjoyed it. I read a book about the case a number of years ago, which is well worth a read. His audacity and ingenuity are something to behold. Booking flights in advance on a stolen credit card would rather blunt my enjoyment of the first class experience as I would always be waiting for the tap on the shoulder. My wife worked as a finance manager in a relatively high end hotel in Edinburgh (not the Balmoral) and police visited her to collect credit card receipts/cctv, which must have been around the time of the Harvey Nichols incident.

[LARK F1 GTR]

I watched them all, but I think it was a very slow pace for the number of frauds he mentioned, basically I think it could have been done in two episodes.

[daqinggregg]

Seems a bit of a stretch to liken this chap to Frank Abagnale (Catch Me If You Can) while I’m sure the film is jazzed up to make it more interesting, Frank, did seem rather skilled and adept at evading the law.

This chap, seems at best a petty crook committing identity theft, or worse a pick pocket stealing peoples credit cards (probably cash) as well, hardly the fraud of the century.

Compared to frauds like the ‘Tinder Swindler’ ‘Sour Grapes’ or ‘The Puppet Master’ all equally horrible; this chaps just seems a scummy little thief.