The two Nassau women were scammed when they gave people posing as tech support operators remote access to their phone and asked for money, Nassau police said.
chancellor angela merkel says we have to stay on guard. we have to go after those who are connected to anis amri. there s a telegraph app we re hearing about. tunisian authorities say this was the app that was used for anis amri to communicate with his nephew. reporter: the app was started in 2013 by two russian brothers here in germany. it s an app, it started as a phone app and was expanded to a desk app. it s described as the app of choice for groups like isis. it has 100 million members, believe it or not. it has a very, very strong encryption. it has you can read a message and it destroys itself immediately. it also has secret chat rooms. and some of these groups have been known to publish kill lists or hit lists on that. because it s so secretive. and that is what authorities are up against.