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Starlink a lifeline for Myanmar scam compounds, report

The scam centers have migrated to Starlink connections after electricity and internet were cut off earlier this year, AFP reports.

Over 300 crypto scam center slaves freed after electricity shutdown

Myanmar militias that once protected these scam centers are now demanding that the Chinese gangsters running them leave their regions.

Chinese abductions prompted Thailand’s government to cut off the electricity supply to crypto scam centers in Myanmar today.

Pig-butchering scams based at the Myanmar compound have reportedly raked in around $100 million in USDT over the past two years.

The Myanmar-based compound that houses the USDT-powered pig-butchering scam is “likely home to thousands of trafficked workers.”