Mafia Boss Betrayed By Facebook

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday March 22, 2010 @02:50AM from the hate-when-that-happens dept.

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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The Original Scarface by NekSnappa · 2010-03-22 02:57 · Score: 0, Redundant

Al Capone was "Scarface" long before Al Pacino.

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I want to shoot the messenger!
Internet key? by nilbog · 2010-03-22 03:12 · Score: 0, Redundant

What is an internet key? I don't need keys to access the internet...

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or else!
Facebook games by ADRenalyn · 2010-03-22 03:37 · Score: 0, Redundant

Maybe he was jonesin' for his fix of "Mafia Wars"
/ducks
Re:Eh by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · 2010-03-22 04:25 · Score: 1, Redundant

I believe you are thinking of "on the altar boy"...