Dayton Diaz admitted in court that he provided another man with the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of roughly 75 customers from the car dealership where we worked.
Until September, Diaz was sales manager at Rick Case Acura in Plantation, Fla., which gave him easy access to the information. He sold that information to Fitzroy Carter for $9,000, or $120 for each set of information. Carter then used the stolen identities to buy $130,000 worth of computers.
Rather than arouse suspicion by having so many computers delivered to a single address, Carter arranged for them to be sent to the victims’ homes. Once members of the identity theft ring knew the approximate delivery times, they’d wait at the delivery address, present a fake driver’s license and take delivery of the computers.
Diaz has no prior criminal record, and will likely receive a sentence of two or three years on a charge of mail fraud conspiracy.
Jared Bossola, Diaz’s attorney, expressed his client’s remorse for his part in the identity theft ring.
“My client regrets this whole situation and regrets his relationship with those individuals who thrive off of identity theft,” Bossola said. “He basically succumbed to peer pressure.”
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