Social media has lead to the downfall of a pair of South Florida criminals. The helpful Internet tip came from a "food porn" photo on Instagram.

Nathaniel Troy Maye, a 44-year-old from Harlem, N.Y., felt the need to display his steak dinner from Morton's steakhouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The quick pic helped the IRS track him and his 39-year-old partner Tiwanna Thompson. They were being tracked by IRS investigators after the tip of an anonymous person who claimed that Maye boasted that he had stolen as many as 700,000 identities, according to a report by The New York Daily News.

According to The Smoking Gun, the thieves were unknowingly dining with a cooperating witness for the IRS at the restaurant on Jan. 7. Maye, whose identity was unknown to the IRS, furnished the informant with a flash drive containing 46 stolen identities to be used in a tax scheme. Maye allegedly claimed to be able to provide up to 50,000 more identities.

Hidden data on the drive connected it with Maye, according to the Sun Sentinel. An Instagram account was discovered under the suspect's name. The user had uploaded the image, dated Jan. 7, and captioned the image "Morton's."

Upon arresting Maye and his partner, whose profile picture the witness had confirmed to be the identity seller, the IRS discovered two flash drives with the rest of the 50,000 stolen identities reports the Daily Mail.

The pair could face up to 12 years in prison following pleading guilty to both aggravated identity theft and possession of unauthorized access devices.

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