泰国当局发现了一项大胆的计划：将数百米的互联网电缆穿越泰缅边境，以维持一个疑似缅甸诈骗园区的在线运营。此前，当局发现两座简陋的村庄住宅每天使用的带宽足以供整个村庄使用。
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.
警方在泰国边境村庄农卢（Nong Lu）突击检查了这些住宅，该村位于坤巴里府，是通往缅甸三塔口的门户——如今已成为网络诈骗分子臭名昭著的中心。许多诈骗中心负责人在缅甸北部或柬埔寨的打击行动之后已搬迁。
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.
泰国当局表示，他们是在发现泰国边境一处小住宅的数据使用量远超正常需求后采取行动的。
Thai authorities said they had acted after finding a surge in data use well beyond the needs of a small home on the Thai border.
在其中一处嫌疑人住所，警方发现了一根48芯光纤电缆——该电缆具有防护套，适用于恶劣环境——沿着电线杆铺设，横跨边境长达350米（1100英尺），为一家非法边境赌场和疑似诈骗中心供电。
At one of the suspect properties police found a 48-core fibre optic cable – covered for use in robust environments – strung along pylons and reaching 350 metres (1,100 feet) across the border, supplying an illegal border casino and suspected scam centre.
国家广播和电信委员会副秘书长、代理秘书长特拉伊拉特·维里亚西里库尔（Trairat Viriyasirikul）在周四突击检查后对记者表示：“他们每天大约使用6太字节的数据，这足以服务大约300到400人。”
“They were using about 6 terabytes a day, which should be enough to serve around 300 to 400 people,” Trairat Viriyasirikul, deputy secretary general and acting secretary general of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission, told reporters after the raid on Thursday.
“当我们进入检查并发现设备……嫌疑人声称这是用于维修工作的。”在视频画面中，这名男性嫌疑人表示，他每天获得700泰铢（约合20美元）的报酬，以允许电缆穿过其 premises 进入缅甸——对于资金雄厚的诈骗集团而言，这只是微不足道的数目。
“When we came in to inspect and we found the equipment … the suspect claimed it was for repair work.”In video footage the male suspect said he was paid 700 baht (US$20) a day to allow the cable to run through his premises into Myanmar, a tiny sum for the deep-pocketed scam gangs.
缅甸已成为全球诈骗交易的中心——继承了柬埔寨此前臭名昭著的称号，而柬埔寨因美国和中国的压力被迫开展清理行动。
Myanmar has become the epicentre of the global scam trade – inheriting the ignominious title from Cambodia which has been forced into a clean-up by the US and China.
主要来自中国的诈骗头目要么抛弃了大型工厂式诈骗园区，转而经营小型酒店；要么开始在公寓房间和别墅里运营分离出来的诈骗小团伙。有些人则彻底撤离，前往缅甸及更远的地区。
The mainly Chinese scam bosses have either abandoned large factory-style scam compounds for small hotels or begun running breakaway units of scammers in condo rooms and villas. Some have also upped sticks entirely to Myanmar and further afield.
三峡关地区受到武装民族民兵的保护，他们收取费用庇护罪犯，导致逃亡的诈骗者从柬埔寨穿越泰国进入缅甸。
The Three Pagodas Pass area is protected by ethnic armed militias who shelter the criminals for a fee, leaving fugitive scammers busting borders from Cambodia, through Thailand and into Myanmar.
非政府组织表示，数百人，甚至可能有数千人——其中一些人被贩卖并被迫从事诈骗——仍然被困在泰国西部边境附近的诈骗中心。
NGOs say hundreds, possibly thousands, of people – some trafficked and forced into scamming – remain trapped in the scam centres just over Thailand’s western border.
这些诈骗中心深入多个武装民族团体争夺的领土，使得营救或关闭它们的行动变得复杂。
The scam centres extend deep into territory disputed by multiple ethnic armed groups, complicating rescues or missions to close them down.
理论上，缅甸诈骗中心的物流供应已被切断，因为它们主要依赖泰国的强大基础设施和供应路线，包括汽油和互联网接入。
Logistics to Myanmar’s scam centres have theoretically been cut, as they mainly relied on Thailand’s strong infrastructure and supply routes, including for petrol and internet access.
但由于拥有源源不断的非法现金，诈骗集团已证明其对打击行动具有韧性，他们通过贿赂官员并确保从柴油到星链卫星终端盒，再到连接邻国的光纤电缆等各种物资的新供应。
But with bottomless amounts of illicit cash, the scam gangs have proved resilient to crackdowns, bribing officials and securing new supplies of everything from diesel and Starlink satellite boxes to fibre optic cables plugging into neighbouring countries.
联合国毒品和犯罪问题办公室在7月估计，2025年单一年份，亚太地区与诈骗相关的损失达到880亿至1140亿美元之间，该办公室表示，“即使按低端计算，这一数额也超过了该地区几个国家的国内生产总值”。
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in July estimated that scam-related losses across the Asia-Pacific reached between US$88 billion and US$114 billion in 2025 alone, a sum it said “even at the low end, outstrips the GDP of several countries in the region”.