Welshman claimed he stiffed Bill Gates

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Teenager arrested for online theft of credit card details.

A Welsh teenager has claimed that he had "a lot of Viagra" sent to Bill Gates, after hacking websites to get hold of the Microsoft founder's credit card details. The FBI and British police swoope...

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