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Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Keeping Modern Slavery Compounds Online
A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands of people are enslaved—are using Starlink to get online.
West, a longtime advocate for victims of so-called pig butchering and other types of cryptocurrency scams, wrote to a lawyer at SpaceX, the company behind Musk’s high-speed Starlink satellite internet system. Within the compounds, which often have close links to Chinese organized crime groups and online gambling syndicates, victims are typically forced to work day and night to scam hundreds of people at a time. Over the past year, according to a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime report published in October, officials in Thailand seized 78 Starlink receivers that are believed to have been heading for scam compounds in Myanmar.
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