Mafia Boss Betrayed By Facebook 214
An anonymous reader writes "One of Italy's 100 most-wanted criminals, a vicious mafia boss who had been on the run for months, was betrayed by his passion for social networking and flushed out thanks to Facebook. Using the name 'Scarface' from the gangster movie starring Al Pacino, Pasquale Manfredi, 33, a boss of the the ferocious 'Ndrangheta mafia organization from the Calabria region in southern Italy, had logged on to his Facebook account so often that police were able to trace the signal from his Internet key and find his hideout.' Seems the Mafia Wars Facebook phenomenon goes deeper than it seemed!"
Re:Trace the signal from his internet key? (Score:5, Insightful)
It's likely simplified language for something too complicated for the general public to understand.
First Rule of Not Being Seen (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:Eh (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:why do these mafia bosses live like peasants? (Score:5, Insightful)
why do people choose a life where they have millions of $$$/Euros but have to live where they can't show it off and like they are poor?
Because before they were on the lamb they were living like kings.
Seriously, why the hell else would you think they do it? You've only seen them at the end of their time as mob boss, they haven't been living in basements for the last 20 years, they've only been living in a basement for the last three weeks. Get it?
It takes years, decades even, to close the noose on these guys because of their money and influence, and even then you'd better have out-witted them at every turn or they'll find a way to slip away clean. In the mean time, they are living in multi-million dollar houses, eating like kings, wearing clothes worth more than ordinary people's cars, etc. There is a lot of advantage that goes with the risk - the only thing that sucks is if you get caught you are as bad off as the poor people these guys despise.
Re:What really bothers me... (Score:1, Insightful)
He had plenty of opportunity for advancement given the high fatality rate of that profession.
Re:Eh (Score:3, Insightful)
The government only deals with the organized crime periodically, like when it's so bad it gets embarrassing.
A thirty something mob boss on facebook isn't all that surprising, something tells me it's not like the movies where all they do is sit around eating pasta and talking in cliche like "Paulie sleeps wit da fishes".
There's probably a mafia presence in the malware scene, anyway, as organized crime keeps up with the times.