Mafia Boss Busted Through Facebook

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Police nabbed an infamous Italian mafia boss with the help of Facebook. Pasquale Manfredi had been logging into the social network for months under the name Scarface. Manfredi was on Facebook so often that the Police were eventually able to track his IP address and capture the boss, who had been on the run for months.

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Comments

[jsgaetano]

03:52 PM on 03/18/2010

"You can't hack me- I got Norton!"

[minerva117]

11:43 AM on 03/18/2010

I know I'm off topic, but a warning to Facebook users. If you get a message telling you that you need to re-set your password, DO NOT open it. If you open the attachment, it will load malware onto your computer that steals your passwords. If you want to re-set your Facebook password, you can do so without opening an attachment to a message.

[jsgaetano]

03:53 PM on 03/18/2010

Yeah, I've been getting those two.

First of all, the messages aren't coming from @facebook.com... and second of all, I'm not even on Facebook.

[NickHP]

09:49 AM on 03/18/2010

Shelly, I can never tell whether you are being direct or have your tongue in your cheek with these videos. I have about 150 accounts scattered across the internet, to the point that I keep a huge alphabetical list of passwords for them. Making them strong and unique is asking a bit much.

[Rena Lanford]

07:37 AM on 03/18/2010

"Pasquale Manfredi had been logging into the social network for months under the name Scarface."

Wow, he really couldn't go for a less obvious name for a mafia boss? That's pretty much the modern equivalent of the wanted boss always hanging out at a restaurant where everyone calls out his name when they see him, only this is even dumber-- I'm willing to bet he used his own photo for the account, too.