According to Xinhua News Agency, Lauren Dreyer, vice president of SpaceX, said on social media on the 21st,The company has identified more than 2,500 “star chain” devices in the neighborhood of Myanmar’s e-fraud park and made them inactive.
Durrell said in a tweet that the company “proactively identified” and disabled more than 2,500 “star chain” devices around the “suspicious scam center” in Myanmar.
According to Myanmar's official media reports on the 20th, the Myanmar Defense Forces recently launched a clean-up operation against fraud parks in the country's border areas and seized 30 sets of "Star Chain" receivers and accessories from the US Space Exploration Technology Company.
On October 14, local time,A U.S. congressional committee says it has begun investigating Musk'sSpaceX CompanyThe Star Chain.Internet services are provided to Myanmar’s scam parks.
According to reports,At the beginning of this year, China, Myanmar and Thailand jointly implemented crackdown measures against the Myawaddy electronic fraud park in Myanmar.After Thailand cut off internet and electricity connections to border areas, StarChain satellite antennas soon appeared on the roofs of these scam centers.At least 8 electronic fraud parks in the Myawaddy area are equipped with "Starlink".There are 80 "Starlink" satellite dishes on the roof of one building in "KK Campus" alone.
Through satellite images and drone videos, the outside world discovered that the fraud group used the Star Link satellite Internet service and discovered new buildings with tight security in the city of Myowadi on the Thai-Myanmar border.
Data from the Asia-Pacific Internet Network Information Center (APNIC) Asia Regional Internet Registry Center shows,Within three months (July to September), StarChain became the largest Internet provider in Myanmar.The latest data shows,Starlink is second with a market share of 12.37%, behind Myanmar's national telecommunications company with 13.7%, but before February this year, Starlink did not even license Internet access in Myanmar.
In September this year,The U.S. government has imposed sanctions on entities and individuals involved in 19 telecom fraud industries in Burma and Cambodia, and revealed that US citizens suffered more than $10 billion in losses due to South-East Asia fraud last year, up to 66 percent.
Nine of the Burmese entities arely operating under the protection of the Clan Army.In northern Myanmar, covered by science and technology parks or cross-border e-commerce companies, a complete industrial chain has been built.
The United States Congressional Joint Economic Committee said the committee had begun an investigation into StarChain and Burma fraud in July.Cheat the park's relationship. The committee has the authority to ask Musk to testify in court. Maggie Hassan, the Democratic leader on the committeeIn a letter to Musk, he urged him to stop Southeast Asian criminal groups from using the "Starchain" satellite Internet to scam Americans.Obviously, the effect is poor.
Currently, American citizens have become one of the main targets of online scammers in Southeast Asia.According to reports, Americans suffered about $10 billion in losses last year, and the reporting rate of related fraud increased by 66%.
Erin West, a former U.S. cybercrime prosecutor, is currently working on investigating the issue. She said"It's abhorrent that an American company should allow this to happen."
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