{
  "id": 14913666,
  "title": "Thai raid foils cross-border cable ruse powering Myanmar scam centre",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/thai-raid-foils-cross-border-cable-ruse-powering-myanmar-scam-centre",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-16T08:31:20.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3371148/thai-raid-foils-cross-border-cable-ruse-powering-myanmar-scam-centre"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}