http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2207422/Italian-police-arrest-man-posed-pilot-joined-cabin-crew-budget-airline-cockpit.html By Nick Pisa Mail Online 23 September 2012 A man who posed as a pilot and joined cabin crew in a plane cockpit has been arrested, Italian police said today. The unemployed 32-year-old man, whose real identity was not released, created a fake profile for himself on Facebook and called himself Andrea Sirlo, even posting pictures of himself wearing a uniform and Aviator sunglasses. To complete the illusion he made up fake identity cards and even sent himself imaginary comments from dozens of fake cabin crew friends who expressed their 'delight' at being rostered with him on flights. Police held the man in the bar at Turin's Caselle airport and revealed details of the elaborate scam at a press conference - as they compared it to the hit Leonardo Di Caprio film Catch Me If You Can in which he posed as a fake pilot and con man who flew more than one million miles around the world in the 1960s. Officers said they believed he had flown in the cockpit of at least one flight between Munich and Turin in October last year and a link on his Facebook page highlighted the trip on a low budget airline called Air Dolomiti but did not take command of the plane. [...] -- ExpandingSecurity.com Live OnLine classes won’t wreck your schedule. Get that cert and be done before 2012 ends. Last ISSAP 2012 class starts Sept. 25th. Last 2012 CISSP and CEH starts Oct. 1: CEH info signup: http://www.expandingsecurity.com/product/ceh-certified-ethical-hacker-online/ CISSP info signup: http://www.expandingsecurity.com/product/cissp-live-online-10-week-course/ ISSAP info signup: http://www.expandingsecurity.com/product/issap-information-systems-security-architecture-professional/Received on Mon Sep 24 2012 - 01:29:12 PDT
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