Identity Theft
What is involved in the crime of theft? As provided in the Revised Penal Code, it is only personal property that is involved in the crime of theft. Otherwise, the crime would not be theft. Personal Property refers to the property that is basically movable. Meaning this is the property that can be carried with ease by the owner. For instance, cellphone, appliances, money, and the likes. However, with the internet age we are in today, what is commonly stolen is the identity of a person. Identity thieves are swarming in the cyberspace with the purpose to deceive somebody inorder to exact some money or to bash some persons inorder to conceal the real identity of the culprit. A lot of victims have already asked whether they could file this so-called identity theft case. However, considering that we did not have yet, at that moment, any specific law defining and punishing such crime, the victims would just get frustrated. Fortunately, with t...