Scobie's scheme allowed him to enjoy trips to the sun.
A teen fraudster who funded a jet-set lifestyle by ripping off travel firms and their customers faces prison.
Reece Scobie booked business-class flights to top hotels in luxury locations like Los Angeles and Singapore using £70,000 of other people’s money.
The 19-year-old was working as a trainee travel agent with a major national firm when he hatched the scheme in July 2011.
He was employed by Thomson Travel in Perth for a few months before being suspended pending an investigation into his conduct.
Astonishingly, he continued booking tens of thousands of pounds worth of flights and holidays through Thomson and independent travel firm Cambridge Business Travel.
He used sensitive logons and passwords to defraud the companies using computers in his mother and father’s homes in Dundee and the Carse of Gowrie.
Though he did not always use the bookings and some of the money was recovered Perth Sheriff Court was told the companies lost £21,000.
Scobie, of Rait in the Carse of Gowrie, will be sentenced in October and has been warned he could lose his liberty.
