Auto Repair owner steals customer’s identities

In Norfolk, VA,  Charles E. Perry Jr. is the owner of three auto-repair shops. He has also been stealing his customer’s identities, and now is a federal criminal that will spend 10 years in prison .

One of my questions throughout these postings is always, “Who can you trust with your information?”

• Story from the Associate Press – this link is from dailypress.com, posted on July 2, 2008 – http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-va–identitytheftsent0702jul02,0,1081116.story

The owner of three auto repair businesses in Virginia will spend 10 years in federal prison for stealing his customers’ identities and fraudulently obtaining more than $600,000.

According to court records, the 46-year-old Perry used his customers’ names to apply for credit cards and business cash advances.