is drawing applause from law enforcement. kron four shows you what the company unveiled today. we think this is going to be a really powerful theft deterrent an increasing number of smartphone owners in the bay area. are losing their expensive devices to strong- arm robbers. and kron 4 s dan kerman has a look at the shocking statistics. and apple s new plan to make it harder toreacti dan: right now. san francisco district attorney george gascon is in new york. he is meeting with other officials. law enforcement leaders. and smartphone manufacturers to discuss this growing problem. gascon has criticized the manufacturers for not doing enough to prevent these thefts. today, he and new york attorney general eric schneiderman released a statement thanking apple. the smartphone summit is scheduled to begin on thursday. iphones already have a app called find my phone which allows you to find your phone location from another phone. that s what i did to disabled because it will req
who was going to promote the bieber concerts. to further convince weinberg, ahmed had a conversation call with a top member of bieber s management group. but it wasn t long before things started to unravel. we start getting kind of word from norway from one of our contacts there i think the justin bieber tickets have gone on sale and have sold out. reporter: and these were the tickets you were preparing to sell? absolutely. and we re thinking, that s impossible. reporter: there were never going to be any tickets. it was all a con job orchestrated by waleed ahmed. weinberg was frantic. he calls the fbi. ahmed had flown back to norway where he posed for these photos and then made what would be a fateful choice. he flew back to san francisco for one more meeting with
it all started with the call weinberg received from a good friend in the music industry. he said that he had come across an opportunity through his group, and he runs in circles down in los angeles that are legit. reporter: weinberg was told about this young kid named ahmed. waleed claimed to have paid, according to the contracts, $4.5 million. are for the rights to five shows in scandinavia. reporter: they handle bieber. so it all started to sound real to weinberg. weinberg was asked to invest a million dollars. with $8 60,000 going to ahmed so he could secure venues. the rest went to two california management companies that ahmed brought in to prepare for the concer concerts. legitimate looking contracts followed. i was told that i would get a percentage of the ticket sales
where he posed for these photos and then made what would be a fateful choice. he flew back to san francisco for one more meeting with weinberg. weinberg now wired by the fbi convinced ahmad to talk to him about the bieber deal. this is where the end game began. had is the exact spot with todd weinberg sat with his hidden microphone looking directly in the eyes of the man who stole his million dollars. ahmad gave weinberg a sob story that his wife was ruined and then he alarmed weinberg by adding he was going to start over, not in norway but in pakistan. i m thinking there s no way i ll see this kid again. he ll be gone, my money s gone, it s over. reporter: the fbi made the decision the time had come to pounce, one day after the meeting and then for a flight to
and i know the results will be fantastic. angie s list reviews you can trust. now to the special cnn investigation. this international con man targeted celebrities in the world s most powerful and very, very soon you will find out how long he will be spending behind bars for his latest scam. it s a scam that involved, of all people, justin bieber. gary tuchman reports. reporter: to todd weinberg, a wealthy investor, a entrepreneur from northern california, 22-year-old ahmed was the picture of success. so weinberg felt very comfortable trusting the young man with his money, a lot of his money. after all, ahmed was the toast of norway where the press hailed him as an innovative genius for supposedly inventing a solar energy cover that could charge iphones. the norwegian government even put up this video of ahmed and