Cuban Ex-pat Punks Castro's Son

It's a modern-day tale, Fidel Castro's son, Antonio Castro Soto del Valle, thought he was carrying on an internet love affair with a Columbian woman named Claudia, but unfortunately for him, 'Claudia' was actually a Cuban expatriate named 'Luis'.

Luis Domínguez, aka Claudia, revealed the scam on a Miami-based TV station. He said he got the idea to try to lure the younger Castro into a phony love affair after seeing Antonio Castro being treated "like a rock star" while touring South America with the Cuban national baseball team. The goal of the scam was to show how the Castros live a far more privileged life than the average Cuban and to "shatter" the image of Cuba's state security apparatus. For example, Domínguez said that while many Cubans were barred from using the Internet, Antonio Castro had his own Apple laptop with unlimited web access and his own BlackBerry.

Castro had 20 chats with 'Claudia' over the space of eight months, with one chat lasting for five hours. He didn't reveal any state secrets, according to Domínguez, but did give her his private phone number and address in Havana.