Guess Who's Watching You On Facebook

By Ed Scarpo
On Facebook? Have pretty pics of you and your family, and all those wonderful things you own?



There's nothing wrong with that. Apparently tens of millions are doing it.





But if you're part of that presumably tiny sliver of the US population that owes money to certain individuals of the bent-nose type, you might want to think twice.

Some loansharks who want their money are turning to social media to find "deadbeats," Cosa Nostra News has learned.

"They forget," one source told us, speaking "very definitely" on background, chuckling as he spoke.

 "They disappear from all the bars and no one sees them, but they don't think twice about plastering their life on Facebook."




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