Growing up in Scotland, Goldie is thought to have begun his criminal activity at the tender age of 22 when he allegedly stole almost 100, 000 from the Royal Bank of Scotland. With the police seeking him for questioning, he left the UK and flew to Australia where he defrauded a large mining company he was working for of more than $417,000. Convicted and sentenced to six years in jail, when he won parole Goldie decided to start a new life of fraud in Thailand. So far he has convinced more than a dozen people to hire him to be their lawyer. Three people are now pursuing him through the Thai courts for money he took under false pretenses.