Thieves caught after posting photo of their meal on Instagram

Ah food porn. Who doesn't love it. It elevates even the dullest of days and conjures up cooking inspiration even when it's all but dried up.

Though just when you thought foodies who post online pictures of their dinning experience couldn't be any more harmless, along comes a couple of American criminals who get caught because of it. Whoops!

Florida residents Nathaniel Troy Maye, 44, and Tiwanna Tenise Thomason, 39 are facing hefty fines and up to a dozen years in a U.S. federal prison after pleading guilty to aggravated identity theft and possession of unauthorized access devices Friday, reports the Sun Sentinel.

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The couple were tracked down by Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents after posting a picture of their steak and macaroni and cheese dinner to Instagram.

So how did this happen?

An undercover witness working for the IRS provided agents with a flash drive of over 50 stolen identities. The flash drive was acquired by the witness on Jan. 7 at a Morton's steakhouse dinner meeting with the couple who were selling these identities. The witness was not able to get the full names of the couple.

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But one of the files on the flash drive was an image of said steak dinner with the caption "Morton's." That led police to find the same photo posted on Instagram under Nathaniel Troy Maye's profile, and, bingo, they found their man and his partner in crime.

IRS agents arrested the couple at Thomason's apartment and said they found two other flash drives containing as many as 55,000 illegally obtained identities, reports Sun Sentinel.

Moral of the story? Never post anything online if you are a criminal. Never.