http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?section=Metro&OID=60826
"The police, already swamped with run-of-the mill crime, now has to deal with new crime techniques done with the aid of cellular phones, posing a challenge that may see them always one or two steps behind the criminals.
Newspaper accounts, quoting Bureau of Immigration sources in the last month alone, showed 52 incidents of human trafficking across the country done �under the table� but, really, with cellular phones that allowed the perpetrators to avoid detection and to commit the crime before the police knew what was happening.
The more established cell phone-aided crimes were the text scams that had flourished unchecked, victimizing 236 people this year alone. This had forced the National Telecommunications Commission, helpless in neutralizing bootleg cell phones being used by the criminals, to just issue a public warning against falling into cell-phone promotions trap.
Recently, law enforcers began to grapple with a problem they perceived at first dimly but with increasing clarity�as incidents began to mount that cell-phone snatchings are connected to other crimes such as illegal drug abuse and kidnapping and that the mobile phones themselves are not the end of the particular snatching but the beginning of a bigger crime. "
