US senator wants Musk to block use of Starlink by financial fraud groups in Southeast Asia
By David Shepardson
Washington (Reuters) Call the Democratic Senator SpaceX CEO on Saturday Elon Musk To prevent the use of Starlink satellite internet service to fraud against Americans in Southeast Asia.
Senator Maggie Hassan stated that Starlink’s latest reports that a wide variety of transnational criminal organizations operating “scam compounds” in Southeast Asia to facilitate fraud against Americans. The US Treasury Ministry of Treasury’s financial crimes executive network, these groups defrauded the Americans from billions of dollars, he said.
In a letter to Musk by Reuters, Hassan said, “Deception networks in Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos continued to use Starlink despite the service rules that allow SpaceX to terminate the fraudulent activity.” “There is a responsibility to prevent SpaceX from using criminals to target the service.”
SpaceX did not respond immediately to the request for comments.
According to the United Nations, criminal networks have begun to defraud the compounds, including hundreds of thousands of people throughout Southeast Asia for years, along the Tay-Myanmar border, where victims had to work in illegal online plans.
“Most people may not know that although most people noticed the deception texts, calls and e -mails they have received, they may not know that the transnational criminals in the world can maintain these frauds using Starlink internet access.”
Since February, Thailand has stopped electricity, internet and fuel materials in five Myanmar border areas, including Miawaddy in order to disrupt the deception centers that have become an increasing regional security concern.
After the kidnapped Chinese actor Wang Xing, who was kidnapped after arriving in Thailand in January, the international pressure to close the scam centers intensified.
Later, he was rescued by the Thai police on the Myanmar border.
According to the United States of the United States, it is known that criminal networks of mostly from China operate many of these scam centers, including those in the Miawaddy region.
(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Toby Chopra and Chizu Nomiyama)
