Laurent Darrell, vice president of SpaceX, said on social media on October 21 that the company has identified more than 2,500 "star chain" devices in the vicinity of Myanmar's e-fraud park and made them inactive.

The picture shows the schematic diagram of SpaceX's "Starlink"

Dreier said in the post that In Myanmar's "surrounding suspected fraud centers", the company "proactively identified" and disabled more than 2500 "Star Link" devices.

According to CCTV news, the Burmese National Defense Force recently launched a clean-up operation against electronic fraud parks in the country's border areas and seized 30 sets of American space exploration technology company "Starlink" receivers and accessories.

According to the report, since early September, the Myanmar Defense Forces has continued to carry out cleansing operations along the Myanmar border. The Burmese Defense Army seized 30 "star chain" receivers and accessories in the KKK park in Clen, searched more than 100 buildings and found 2,198 gamblers involved in gambling.The Myanmar Defense Forces will continue to carry out anti-terrorist operations in border areas with all its strength.

On October 14, local time, A U.S. Congressional committee said it had begun investigating whether Musk's SpaceX company "Star Chain" provided Internet services to Myanmar's scam parks.

According to reports, at the beginning of this year, China, Myanmar and Thailand jointly implemented crackdowns on Myanmar's Myowadi Electric Fraud Park. Star Link satellite dishes soon appeared on the roofs of these fraud centers after Thailand cut off Internet and power connections to border areas. At least 8 fraud parks in the Miaowadi area are equipped with "Star Chain", and there are 80 "Star Chain" satellite antennas on the roof of one building in the "KK Park" 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.

KK Park

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.But until February this year, Star Chain had not even obtained internet access in Myanmar.

In September this year, the U.S. government imposed sanctions on 19 entities and individuals involved in the telecommunications fraud industry in Myanmar and Cambodia, and disclosed that last year, American people suffered losses of more than 10 billion US dollars due to Southeast Asian fraud, a year-on-year increase of 66%.

Among them, nine Myanmar entities are reported to operate under the protection of the Karen National Army. They are entrenched in northern Myanmar and have actually built a complete industrial chain under the cover of science and technology parks or cross-border e-commerce companies.

The U.S. Congressional Joint Economic Committee said the committee had begun an investigation into the relationship between StarChain and the Burmese fraud park in July. The committee has the right to ask Musk to testify.Maggie Hassan, the Democratic leader on the committee, sent a letter to Musk urging him to stop Southeast Asian criminal groups from using the Star Link satellite Internet to defraud Americans, but it clearly did not work well.

Currently, U.S. citizens have become one of the main targets of online scammers in Southeast Asia. According to reports, Americans suffered losses of approximately US$10 billion last year, and the related fraud reporting rate increased by 66%.

Irene West, a former U.S. cybercrime prosecutor, is currently investigating the matter, saying, ¡°It¡¯s disgusting for an American company to allow this to happen.¡±

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Myanmar government forces raided KK Park and seized 30 sets of satellite link equipment

The Myanmar government said on October 20 that the government forces carried out raids on the KK scam park near the border with Thailand and seized 30 sets of star-chain network equipment.

During the operation, government forces took over about 200 buildings in the park and found nearly 2,200 employees at the scene.

Burmese government forces seize Starlink equipment in KK park

According to previous reports, Starlink satellite antennas appeared on the roofs of these fraud centers soon after Thai cut off the Internet and power connections to the border areas. About 80 Starlink satellite dishes were found on the roof of one building in the "KK campus" alone. Through satellite images and drone videos, the outside world found that the fraud gang used Thai satellite Internet service and found new buildings with tight security guards in Myawaddy City, on the Thai-Myanmar border.

Data from the Asia-Pacific Internet Information Center (APNIC) Asia Regional Internet Registry Center showed that StarChain jumped to become Myanmar¡¯s largest Internet provider in three months (July to September). The latest data showed that StarChain ranks second with a market share of 12.37%, behind only 13.7% of Myanmar¡¯s National Telecommunications Corporation. The black market for StarChain devices reaches the scale of billions.