He has plenty of luxury wristwatches, electronic devices and perfumes that make his neighbors wonder how he purchased them given that he is unemployed. Once you ask him about it, you expect him to be offended or upset, but on the contrary, Ans, 35, brags about how he buys goods online with stolen credit cards after hacking the cards’ secret information.
Al-Monitor spoke to Ans over the phone: “Each (online) shopping site has a large database for credit-card numbers. After hacking into the website, we get personal identification data and the 16 digits that are specific to each card. We use these numbers to purchase goods from other websites. For instance, I pretend to be Alex from Britain. I buy stuff online from this website and I send it via mail to Gaza,” he said.
