March 17, 2010, 12:31PM

Real 'Mafia Wars': Facebook Helps Nab Actual Criminal

Pasquale Manfredi, 33, who reportedly calls himself Scarface and allegedly runs the 'Ndrangheta mafia, was captured in Calabria using intelligence gleaned from the social networking site. Manfredi, who used the alias Georgie on Facebook, is suspected of using social networking to exchange coded instructions and stay in contact with other mobsters. Read the full article. [The Register]


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