Stealing, generally, has been recognised as a criminal offence and worldwide it has been viewed as the permanent deprivation of a person's ownership in a property by another. The concept of property has often been limited to material things which can be transferred to or inherited by another. This paper seeks to shed light on those other things that are not but should be considered property for the sake of defining the offence of stealing. In doing this, the effect of technology on the concept of stealing in Nigeria will be examined. A comparative analysis of the Nigerian status and the status of a few select jurisdictions, as regards the subject matter, will be done. It is believed that at the end of this paper, the concept of stealing will be viewed broader than it is seen now and that what the average person would normally see as fraud or "419" (using the Nigerian slang), will be clearly classified as stealing.