Inside the compounds, which often have close ties with organized Chinese crime groups and online gambling unions, victims are usually forced to work day and night to scam hundreds simultaneously. This includes long -term investment scams that have made up to $ 75 billion over the past few years. If the victims of the smuggling do not match, they are often beaten or tortured. Escaping or paying ransom is often the only way out.
Sustainable Internet connections are very important for successful operations – from the initial targeting of possible victims of human trafficking by false jobs to daily fraud and ultimately money laundering. Palm Naripthaphan, Executive Advisor to the Thai National Broadcasting and Communications Commission (NBTC), says that the scam centers along the border have historically used cellular carriers in Myanmar or Thailand. They can also be connected to optical fiber cables in Thailand or run by the Moei River. Increasingly, Noriptafan believes that Starlink has been involved.
The musk satellite system consists of several elements. More than 6,000 Starlink satellites in the Earth’s orbit and connecting the Internet to the white and rectangular starlink (nicknamed Dishy McFlatface). Some are easy to adjust and provide internet connections in areas where there are few options or other options such as war zones such as Ukraine.
Starlink is not officially licensed in Myanmar, which has been accepted in a bloody civil war since the military coup in 2021, and has reportedly been banned by military Junta. The company’s cover map shows no availability in the country. But this has not stopped Starlink terminals and is often used in Myanmar to combat frequent internet shutdowns.
“This is really the best thing,” says David Yubank, a free founder of Burma Rangers, a Christian organization that offers humanitarian aid and tracks human rights abuses in Myanmar. The group uses about 80 StarLink systems to coordinate humanitarian relief, adding that any blanket ban is harmful. “If you can find a factor that they misuse, you punish them, but you don’t just turn off the whole network.”
Among the eight -composed zones of well -known fraud – KK Park, Tai Chang, Dongmei, Huanya, British, Gate 25, Apolo and Shwe Kokko – Mobile phones have entered thousands of online downloads using StarkLink networks in recent months. According to an analyst with access to location data from the online advertising industry, at least 412 StarLink units have been cited as their Internet provider in hybrid locations between November and February. Overall, 40,800 samples are recorded.
“Last summer, when I drew data and started seeing Starlink, I was surprised. Now, I am wondering if I had the data for a compound and there was no at least one starlink connection, they said they found data in every combination they checked.
The analyst uses an ad-tech advertising tool they refused to search for areas around known fraudulent compounds for mobile phone use. The Data Data broker industry sells very specific data that people use on their phones. The tool used by the analyst provides the phone’s IP address, physical coordinates and internet service provider they use. The analyst says complete results for compounds include Internet and cellular providers from Thailand, Myanmar cell carriers, remote servers and starlink.
At KK Park, one of the largest and famous scam sites shown above, at least 127 units have recorded 24,000 Starlink connections over three months. Overall, 2,907 units were active in the area, although about 800 of these data did not list specific carrier data.
