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For those who don't know about these fake monks. They hang around touristy areas and are asking for money on various pretexts. Real monks will never go around begging from foreigners or trying to bless you or sell you something.
Posted on the Phnom Penh Expats FB page today.


Travis El Phillipe‎Phnom Penh & Expat Forum
10 hrs · [10/10/2016]

Most expats know this is a scamming, fake monk POS. But in case you are new, don't let this wanna be clown touch you or put his stupid wooden beads on you. He can get aggressive. Fake monk. St 172

fucking stinky chink chank scum giving monks a bad name, someone shld rough him up

bolueeleh wrote:fucking stinky chink chank scum giving monks a bad name, someone shld rough him up

In all honesty, real monks also manage to give monks a bad name.....

I have noticed those fake monks extending their territory to the outer areas of PP . My kids and I saw them getting money off poor Cambodians in Takhmau and I asked my kids if they knew they were fake monks. No they didn't know, so what do they talk about on facebook these days ?

Duncan wrote:I have noticed those fake monks extending their territory to the outer areas of PP . My kids and I saw them getting money off poor Cambodians in Takhmau and I asked my kids if they knew they were fake monks. No they didn't know, so what do they talk about on facebook these days ?

i would like to be his elbow in this pic

Pursat: Fake Australian monk has been arrested for impersonating a monk and he may be deported. They are going down hard on him because he was reported to the police by the local religious authorities, who received complaints about his demands for "donations". He seems to have been raking in a fair bit of dough.


Major General Uk Heiseila, chief investigator at the Ministry of Interior’s immigration department, identified the fake monk as Vietnamese-Australian Tren Hao Fan, 49, who was transferred to the immigration department for further questioning on Saturday.

“If he has no passport he will be deported and put on the no-entry list permanently,” Maj. Gen. Heiseila said.

Pursat town police chief Chhorn Rith told Khmer Times that police made the arrest after a complaint was filed by the provincial religious department.

He added that police found evidence in addition to items commonly used by monks like robes, stick and bags. “We also found a motorcycle, $3,040 and 1.7 million riel [about $425],” Mr. Rith said.
Khmer Times.

You'd never guess he wasn't a real monk.

John Bingham wrote:You'd never guess he wasn't a real monk.

Is it the three and a half grand, the motorbike, or the facial hair that gives it away ?

Nope, must be the hat, right ?

i wouldnt have known