Elliot Castro (born 1982) is a Scottish fraud liar and ex-fraudster from Glasgow who claims he swindled approximately $2.8 million through various financial crimes when he was a teenager.

Castro claims that this criminal behaviour was ramped up when at 16 years old he lied about his age on a job application for a mobile phone company, stating he was 18.

jailed in Canada and stole the credit card details of the Canadian Immigration Office to book a flight back to Glasgow.

After prison, he stopped defrauding people and began working legitimately as a fraud prevention consultant for several firms.

[3] His 'stranger than fiction' story has been documented in a BBC iplayer series: "Confessions of a Teenaged Fraudster" in 2024.