Thai authorities have reportedly busted an 'audacious' criminal gang scheme, in which hundreds of meters of fiberoptic cable were found running across the border of Thailand into Myanmar. The cable was found to be serving an online scam compound in the country, which included an illegal border casino and a suspected scam center, SCMP reports.

According to the report, officers were called to homes in Nong Lu, a village in the border province of Kanchanaburi. The province is a gateway to Myanmar's Three Pagodas Pass, which is described as "a notorious hub for cyber scammers." Police reportedly found "two ramshackle village homes" using up enough daily internet bandwidth to power an entire village. What they found at the scene of one property was a 48-core fibre optic cable with a robust covering, strung up along pylons and stretching 350 meters (1,100) feet across the border. The cable was being used to siphon bandwidth out of Thailand and into Myanmar for illicit, criminal activity.

Trairat Viriyasirikul, deputy secretary general and acting secretary general of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission, said that the cable was using about 6 terabytes of data a day, enough to serve 300 to 400 people. Instead, the data was being illegally routed to "keep a suspected Myanmar scam compound online." Said compound reportedly contained the aforementioned illegal border casino and scam center.

An unidentified male suspect reportedly pocketed 700 baht (around $20) a day for the privilege of running through his house; the report implies he was paid by a scam gang.

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