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The World's Biggest Tech Scam: How a 20-Year-Old Conned Royalty, the Media, and the FBI

8 September 2026

How did the young entrepreneur and media darling, Waleed Ahmed, known as "Norway's Mark Zuckerberg" ends up being arrested by the FBI and sentenced to 11 years in prison? Norwegian-Pakistani Waleed Ahmed (25) was a charismatic boy who took Norway and the international business world by storm, hailed by the media as an exceptionally promising entrepreneur, and brought into the Norwegian royal family - but it all turned out to be a bluff. How did Waleed end up being arrested by the FBI and convicted to a 11 years long sentence in a US high security prison?… Video by YouTube channel.

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