Senator presses Musk on Starlink ‘misuse’ by Southeast Asian scammers

Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan is looking for answers from Elon Musk about the reported use of SpaceX’s Starlink technology by criminal groups running scamming compounds in Southeast Asia. 

In a letter addressed to Musk, the company’s CEO, Hassan requested information “about SpaceX’s efforts to prevent the misuse of Starlink in transnational fraud.”  

In February, a Wired investigation found that at least eight scam compounds in Myanmar were using Starlink devices. Over about three months, mobile phones reportedly logged connections to Starlink within compounds more than 40,000 times. 

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