Mafia Boss Betrayed By Facebook

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!"

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Al Pacino was not the first scarface.

[Nadaka]

Mr. Capone would like to have a word with you.

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Re:Trace the signal from his internet key?

[Mr_Silver]

I assumed that internet key was a badly translated Italian phrase for IP address. But your explanation probably makes more sense.

Whereas we call it a USB Modem, in Italy they call it "Internet Key".

Basically, they got his IP address from Facebook, took it to the Mobile Broadband supplier who gave up his billing address.

Re:Trace the signal from his internet key?

[Exitar]

A wireless USB stick, known in Italy as "chiavetta internet"/internet key.