People on a balcony of a building with what appears to be Starlink satellite dishes on the roof in the KK Park complex in Myanmar's eastern Myawaddy township, as pictured from Mae Sot district in Thailand's border province of Tak, on September 17, 2025. Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP/Getty Images
SpaceX has disabled over 2,500 Starlink devices being used by cyber scam syndicates operating in a lawless corner of Myanmar, the Elon Musk-led company said Wednesday.
Despite regional authorities’ highly publicized crackdowns on the cyberfraud centers along Myanmar’s border with Thailand this year, the scamming networks have continued to proliferate in the civil war-afflicted nation.
SpaceX said it works to identify violations in all markets where Starlink operates.
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