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

South China Morning Post Friday 16 October 2026, 08:31 UTC By Aidan Jones 1 min read

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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...

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

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