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!"
Eh (Score:5, Funny)
ZYNGA STRIKES AGAIN (Score:1, Funny)
I bet one of the other mob bosses had more friends in his MafiaWars Mob.
Fan of baths in the canal (Score:5, Funny)
Pasquale Manfredi has sent you an invite you cannot refuse. Do you want to accept?
Re:Trace the signal from his internet key? (Score:5, Funny)
His last Facebook status update... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Is this good or bad? (Score:2, Funny)
All things electronic can be trace
Wow, I didn't know that! Could you try tracing my microwave oven, please? Just to give you a bit of a head start, it's 800W, and I'll probably be using it tonight around 7pm, somewhere in the UK.
Re:Eh (Score:5, Funny)
>>I'm guessing that "'Ndrangheta boss" counts for more than "uses facebook" when it comes to calculating an individual's ranking in the criminal respect index.
Yeah, but tweeting your crimes is definitely worth -50 points.
Re:Is this good or bad? (Score:3, Funny)
A Warning (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Trace the signal from his internet key? (Score:5, Funny)
Seriously though, if law enforcement had any of the programs and databases they seem to have on every cop show on television, I am pretty sure the unsolved crime rate would be below 2%.
Driveby shooting ? (Score:3, Funny)
Don Zynga strikes again! so, Facebook may be expecting a drive-by shooting any moment ?
Re:internet key?? (Score:5, Funny)
What is this Google that you speak of?
Do I need an internet key to access it?
Re:Eh (Score:3, Funny)
Perhaps he was using it to keep in touch with his "family".
Re:Eh (Score:5, Funny)
- Totally legit
- On the lamb
- Locked up
- It's complicated
That depends (Score:5, Funny)
What's his score on Mafia Wars?
Re:Trace the signal from his internet key? (Score:5, Funny)
It basically means that law enforcement whipped up a GUI in Visual Basic in order to trace his IP address.
Re:Trace the signal from his internet key? (Score:2, Funny)
Italy needs your help defeating a mafia boss (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Eh (Score:4, Funny)
- On the lamb
For priests?
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DiGiorno and delivery.
Re:Trace the signal from his internet key? (Score:5, Funny)
One of the investigators sat down at a terminal and said, "Hey... this is UNIX! I know this!" Then, he used the UNIX GUI to fly around the interwebs until he found a box with the name "scarface" on it. He clicked on that box, and it brought up this guys address, phone number, names of his family members, and favorite color.
It was pretty simple, actually. The investigator learned how to do it by watching Jurassic Park over and over.
What really bothers me... (Score:5, Funny)
What really bothers me about this is that this guy became a mob boss at 33. I really need to pick up the pace.
Re:Trace the signal from his internet key? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Trace the signal from his internet key? (Score:1, Funny)
The average Giovanni you mean :p
Re:Eh (Score:5, Funny)
Re:why do these mafia bosses live like peasants? (Score:2, Funny)
Because before they were on the lamb...
I thought he was Italian, not Welsh.
Re:Trace the signal from his internet key? (Score:2, Funny)
BWAHAHA, TV fail
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