I had a guy from Toronto by the name of Don Simon contact me, he said he was an investor?. do you have more details about this impostor?

THIS GUY IS A THIEF. TRIES TO BUY CARS WITH FORGED CHEQUES AND HAS BEEN USING THIS CELL # FOR SOMETIME NOW......

Keeps calling

Don Simon,
Apparently you (or your name was used) to buy a car in BC using a forged cheque from my company. I got a call from an alert seller and in fact called the cell # and spoke with this forger..... not a very intelegent young  immature man. In time, he will get caught.
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He is still trying to pull a scam! Using the exact same name and he is oriental. I mean Don Simon is a pretty american name. When we told him we called the company he worked for and they had no idea who he was, he started rambling and told us he would call us back. Except NEW to his scam is that he will come pick up the difference instead of having us wire him money.

Yep same scenario. Emailed me saying he hasn't got time to come look at truck. He'll send me a check blah blah blah. New as soon as I got his email it was a scam.

thanks guys, this guy contacted my fiance saying the same things he has said to you, we havent gotten the cheque yet but now that we know, we'll be taking this information to the proper authorities. Thanks for saving us a headache

He contacted me this week from auto trader. Thanks for the blog. Shawn

Same thing happened today... Don Simon contacted me to purchase my vehicle that is listed on auto trader, advised he would send a cheque now as he was busy travelling. I googled his name and found this blog. Thanks!, I replied to his email with the link to here.

"...send me double the amount and ask to send extra money to UK...."
Thats what he gets out of it.  If you were dumb enough to fall for it you would have sent him the extra money.  By using a courier and western union he would get your money fast, before you realized you were being scammed.  Using the post office would give you a couple of days to recognize your mistake and stop payment on the check.

Same scenario.  Have a car for sale and he sent me a cheque for double what I am asking. Check has the "Giant Portable Storage" logo. Supposed to call him but not wasting my time. Just thought I would check to see if anything was on the net for this phone number and sure enough.....

I have just been contacted by the same person. Yes, he makes it so obvious that its a scam, its rather funny and stupid. I even called and spoke to the idiot, he claims it not a scam. Obviously, his checks would never clear, has anybody tried to deposit his sent checks??

Scammer, read forums about this number on 800notes.com or the link below
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-647-831-3973

same happen here.send me double the amount and ask to send extra money to UK via western union.
name was don simon. i didnot understand why he spend money on courier to send me a fake cheque????? what he get out of this???

I had the exact same scenario as Mike except the cheque I received was a TD Canada Trust business cheque. The cheque had "DINH Limited" as the business name and was more than double the price we were asking for the vehicle. He went by the name Don Simon and was asking us to forward the difference to a shipping company.

Exact same scenerio and name, but mine was from autotrader.  Clams he buys cars in Canada for his clients and ships them overseas to them.  Sends overpayment of cheque from Daiter's Creamery and Appetizer in Toronto, which is a fake.  Ask to deposit cheque and send overpayment (thousands of dollars) to some place in the UK via Western Union.  This scammer is an idiot, makes it so obvious its a scam from the start.

This number was given to me by someone trying to pull a scam with forged cheques.  Apparently has happened to a few other people according to a kijiji forum.  All were related to "buying" classic cars we were selling.  The number, and phony cheque are with the police.