Warning to Thai citizens and Farangs!
the conman claims he is peronal friend of bill clinton and john howard
An international conman, Dane Mogens Mørsthøj Christensen is back in Bangkok after being convicted a suspended sentence in Denmark for acting as a fake doctor and illegally treating patients.
Mogens Mørsthøj Christensen loves Thailand and he plans all his scams from his hideout in Bangkok.
His specialty is fake charities. He usually will claim that he is in the process of setting up a camp for children with cardiovascular diseases. And he will collect money from people who want to participate in these camps as volunteers.
However these camps never takes place, as Mogens Mørsthøj Christensen always use the collected money for his own high life.
Thai senator Meechai Viravaidya has called the Danish fraudster for “The Saddam Husein” of charity in Danish National TV, TV2 Denmark, and Khun Meechai in fact came up with the idea of this warning.
In Thailand Mogens Christensen has been advertising for staff for his fake organizations, at Bangkok
universities by using the name of the Royal Danish Embassy. However the Danish Embassy had nothing to do with these job offers. Needles to say Christensens staff did not receive the promised salary.
Christensen also committed fraud by opening a bank account in Bangkok Bank claiming he was an employee at the Danish Embassy.
In Bangkok he cheated a Thai-Chinese house owner for 18 month of house rent, 800.000 baht, claiming he was a Danish ambassador on special mission. He is not, but he is receiving a Danish government pension of 1.000 US dollars a month.
Mogens Christensen is traveling once a month to Singapore on a Visa run where he stays at his favorite hotel, the charming colonial Sha Villa Hotel. Here in Singapore he has his bank account in Hongkong Shanghai Bank Cooperation on Orchard Road, an account where people are asked to deposit money to his fake charity.
He just fled Singapore last week, as Singapore real estate broker Jim Ellis tried to get him arrested for
attempted fraud. Mogens Christensen pretended to want to buy a piece of land near Orchard Road for the sum of 40 million Singapore Dollars, but the aim was to cheat Ellis for 8.000 US dollars for charity, claiming he was a heart surgeon.
New Zealand releif organisation, Dev-zone, placed this warning on their homepage:
Recently a posting was made on the Development Employment Opportunities database offering fraudulent volunteer opportunities to join a programme helping handicapped children in Thailand and South Africa.
The listing appeared on our website and in our email updates. Mogens Christensen, who posted the opportunity is associated with a number of similar scams.
While Dev-Zone does have a screening process for jobs submitted to our website we can not vouch for the validity of the opportunities posted or the integrity of those who submit them. We recommend that our users do their own investigation before pursuing opportunities, especially those that request money being sent.
We hope our service continues to be useful for the large variety of genuine and worthy organisations seeking both voluntary and paid employees that use our site.
And Singapore Straits times had this article on one of his scams:
Volunteers hoping to join a bogus children’s camp paid fees into Singapore bank account
By K.C. Vijayan
Crime Correspondent
A DANE, wanted in his own country, used a Singapore bank account in an online scam that conned people into paying to volunteer at a bogus children’s camp in South Africa.
And it was not the first con by Mogens Christenson, 47.
STEALING? NO, IT’S TEASING: “I will never stop. I don’t call it stealing. It’s teasing. I’m just teasing people.”
Christenson, whose career as a conman stretches back 20 years, is said to travel to Singapore four times a year to attend to his bank accounts here. His most recent visit was last month, when he stayed in his regular hotel on the edge of the Orchard Road area. He claims former US president Bill Clinton is a friend.
He pulled off a similar scam in New Zealand and, 20 years ago, was jailed in Denmark for posing as a Danish duke to get a car firm to give him a free car.
In his latest scam, last month he set up a website to advertise the camp in Bangkok, where he lives with his 37-year-old Thai wife.
Among those duped was an undergraduate in Belgium, Ms Lynn Gielis. The 23-year-old said she remitted about 680 euros ($1,500) to his Singapore account in October.
The student of development aid was drawn to the offer as it was posted on a reliable website used regularly by volunteers seeking work.
She told The Straits Times on Monday: ‘I was very mad initially, but now I’ve come to accept it. My lawyer is trying to get my money back, but I’m not hopeful.’
Christenson is an unrepentant impostor who is well known to the Danish media.
A correspondent of Denmark’s TV2, Mr Michael Rastrup Smith, who trailed him from Bangkok to Singapore, said:
‘He’s a very smart man who makes small amounts from a lot of people and he knows people will not make a fuss because the amounts are small and suing him is not worth the cost.
‘But when you add the small amounts, it becomes a very big amount he has taken.’
Mr Smith said Christenson flies to Singapore from Bangkok at least once every three months to attend to his bank accounts, and always stays in the same hotel on the fringe of the Orchard Road area. He last stayed there, for three days, at the end of last month.
Christenson has lived in Bangkok for more than seven years, where he has attracted the attention of the police.
A senior Thai police officer said he faces no criminal charges, but the police want him to go. Thai Police Special Branch investigating officer V. Rattachai told The Straits Times: ‘We are looking to see if he can be barred from the country under immigration rules based on his conduct.’
Major Rattachai said his work permit was stopped last March when it was found his travel agency was not registered with the tourism authorities. However, the issue of his status is sensitive as he is married to a Thai.
His scams are big news in Denmark. In another recent online offer, he used a New Zealand-based website called DevZone which provides a job database offering development jobs all over the world.
New Zealand TV station TVNZ said he advertised for volunteers to work on his private project for handicapped children in Thailand.
More than 20 people, including Danes, were said to have been taken in by the ploy, before embarrassed website officials removed his advertisement, it reported.
In Denmark, Christenson is wanted by the police for posing as a doctor at a hospital for about three days, until he was found out.
‘We will arrest him when he returns to Denmark as the crime is not serious enough for us to seek his extradition,’ the Danish police told The Straits Times on Tuesday.
Last month, in an interview with Mr Smith in Singapore, Christenson said: “I will never stop. I don’t call it stealing. It’s teasing. I’m just teasing people.”
