Complaint Review: S & S Contracting - North York Ontario

Dear Glen J. Sousa (aka Glen Sousa aka Glen Souza),

Where have you been hiding? You have been promising to complete my projects that I'd fully paid you for since late 2010. Your last call to me was in early Feb 2012. So, what happened? Did you jump off a cliff or run in front of a train or something? Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if you did as the burden of lying to & scamming so many people must really have been weighing you down. A scam artist has no conscience it seems. No matter how much people try to help you, you just keep conning them and move onto your next victims. I told you once all the work I paid you for and the money I lent you had been resolved, I would happily help you diversify out of contracting into other very profitable ventures, but we never even got to that stage.

Sadly, in all the time I've known you, you have done nothing but make empty promises, lie, cheat, and steal from me, and as I found out, with many others as well. And, what's with your expression of "I promise I'll be at your home 1,000% tomorrow guaranteed"? If you had any sense, you'd know you can't promise more than 100%, so does the extra 900% make your promise any stronger? Perhaps. But, in the hundreds of times you promised me anything you almost always failed to deliver. This shows an incredible lack of integrity. 

Your word is worthless, as is your character. You're a pathological liar! You're really no better than a boozed up bum on the street.

You started off doing decent work for me, so never could I have imagined you were a serial scam artist. The fact is, the initial 2 projects I hired you for were going so well but you still haven't finished either of them completely. However, as they were going on, you offered to build a stunning dream gazebo for me based off the photo I gave you, and I paid you in full for that because you claimed you needed to make payroll. 

Ultimately, I learned you don't actually build the gazebos but rather sub-contract them out to other scam artists such as "Chris Long" of Wood Design, Inc. in Brantford, ON. I don't know who's the bigger scam artist, you or him. Or perhaps this "Chris Long" doesn't even exist and is merely a friend of yours posing as this so called super-secret builder who only deals with established & reputable contractors, which you're obviously neither. Do you get off by having your friends pose as imaginary characters for you?

Ditto for this "John" the cop friend of yours who promised to take care of a speeding violation I got while coming to your rescue. This "John" guy never bothered to do anything for me despite having received my funds and paperwork. Let me guess, he doesn't even exist, does he? Another one of your scammer friends you had call me from prison?

In Oct 2010 a few weeks after you'd promised to install my gazebo, you disappeared for a month and when you re-appeared you went on about your mom being in the hospital getting a kidney operation, so you couldn't work for a month. You called me desperately on a Wed morning for help. You told me a customer owed you $6,500 but when you went to pick up the money on the Tues he'd left you a post-dated cheque for Friday, not cash as you expected. So, with your mortgage being due on the very same Wednesday, you'd asked to borrow $1,500 from me just for 3 days? With all your cries for help, begging, and high pressure tactics I gave you the benefit of the doubt, had you sign a contract, and lent you the funds. I did ask to see your home ownership papers, but you said your wife (Enza Amoruso) handles all of that and she'd freak if she knew you were borrowing money from me. Of course as I would learn later, Enza was NOT your wife, and you didn't own your home. These are just a few of the hundreds of lies you would tell me.

A couple of weeks later, you came back to me and continued your scamming charade by borrowing more funds, this time against your _other_ home, and also to pay for your Hyundai Tucson SUV. Again, I asked to see documentation but you weaseled your way out of that with more excuses. Several times you came to my home crying in tears begging at my doorstep to borrow funds. I'd never seen something so pathetic in my life, a grown man crying and admittedly embarrassed to be in such a situation. I hate to see people suffer, let alone a grown man cry, so again, under dubious circumstances and with no legal confirmation, just empty promises you made that I could put a lien against your 2 homes if you didn't pay me back, I went ahead against my better judgment.

Again, in late Oct 2010, you came to me to borrow funds. This time you wanted to prove to me you could pay me back with the money you were getting for a large "boat-house" project you were working on. You showed me around "the project" and presented me an ORIGINAL contract signed by a "Joan Anderson" where she was to pay you $16,000 up-front but you just needed to borrow another $1,500 from me to pay your mortgage. The only problem was, you fabricated this contract and there was no Joan Anderson. This IS Criminal Fraud With Intent!!! Carlos, the manager of that building project (who had hired you for some other unrelated work) advised me later that he kicked you out for incompetence; not only that, he'd paid you $3,000 for work you never did, and whatever work you did do he had his guys mostly rip up and redo because it was so shoddy.

In the end, I lent you over $6,500. I also lent you money to cover your insurance payments for your Ford F150 truck or else you claimed you couldn't do any work for me. 

It's sad that your whole life is nothing but pathetic excuses and lies; every day you must scam people just to survive. You are a sad excuse for a human being. It wouldn't surprise me that Enza 
kicked you out the home after getting sick of your twisted lies and for not doing work that people paid you for.

Oh yeah, let me guess...your name is probably not even Glen J. Sousa, right? Despite my repeated requests, you never once produced any sort of ID which means you've been scamming people for a long time and don't want people to find out.

And, you probably made up the part about having a daughter. You came to me in late Jan 2012 looking to borrow money to pay child support for her, but by then I was so disgusted by your scams I told you I'm not your bank. You kept calling saying you're coming over to resolve completing all the outstanding tasks and repaying me what was owing, and then in early Feb 2012 the calls stopped.

With the $2,200 gazebo money, the $1,000+ I lent you for your truck insurance and other misc expenses (including some far-fetched rebate scam you had me pay for or else Chris Long wouldn't deliver my gazebo), and the 2 unfinished initial projects, you've stolen over $10,000 from me. This is outright fraud in every respect since you knew in advance you were going to steal money with no desire to pay back. I have come across several others who you've scammed. You can run or crawl away like the coward you are but we will never let you get away with this.

ps. Enza seems like a decent person and was every bit a part of S&S Contracting, however in order to trigger on as many keywords as possible when people search for you guys, I am including her details. She needs to know what kind of a person you were and are as you've probably been hiding a lot of it from her.

Enza Amoruso aka Enza Amoroso
(of Mobile Legal Services, Amoruso Legal Services, Amoroso Legal Service)  
Tel: 647-975-0301

Glen J. Sousa aka Glen Sousa aka Glen Souza
Tel: 647-200-0301  or 416-833-0944

S & S Contracting aka S&S Contracting aka S&S Contractors

Vehicles used to commit the various frauds: 
Black Ford F150 w/ license plate "311 1ZH"
Hyundai Tucson w/ license plate "BEST 906"