Thai raid foils cross-border cable ruse powering Myanmar scam centre
Por Aidan Jones — South China Morning Post – News feed
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Authorities found a 48-core fibre optic cable, reaching 350 metres across the border, supplying an illegal casino and suspected scam centre
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Aidan Jones in Bangkok Published: 4:31pm, 16 Oct 2026 Updated: 4:32pm, 16 Oct 2026 Authorities in Thailand have uncovered an audacious scheme involving hundreds of metres of internet cable sent over the Thai border to keep a suspected Myanmar scam compound online, after finding two ramshackle village homes using enough daily bandwidth to power an entire village.
Officers raided the homes in Nong Lu, a Thai border village in Kanchanaburi province, which is the gateway to the Three Pagodas Pass in Myanmar – now a notorious hub for cyber scammers.
Many scam centre leaders have relocated after crackdowns further north inside Myanmar or in Cambodia.
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