Thai raid foils cross-border cable ruse powering Myanmar scam centre

rss · SCMP 2026-10-16T08:31:20Z en
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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