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SpaceX says it has cut Starlink satellite communication to more than 2,500 devices used by scam centers in Myanmar. More than 30 centers are still believed to be operating along the Thai-Myanmar border, where people from around the world have been kidnapped and forced to work in online fraud schemes.

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00:00SpaceX says it has cut Starlink satellite communication to more than 2,500 devices used by scam centres
00:08in Myanmar.
00:10The service cut follows a raid by the Myanmar military earlier this week on one of the country's
00:14most notorious scamming sites.
00:17More than 30 centres are still believed to be operating along the Thai-Myanmar border,
00:22where people from around the world have been kidnapped and forced to work in online fraud.
00:27Earlier this month, the US and UK sanctioned a multinational network accused of running scams
00:32out of Cambodia and Myanmar.
00:35A spokesperson for SpaceX says it wants to prevent misuse of its services by bad actors.
00:41It's unclear if the remaining compounds have lost Starlink service.
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