Paris, Oct 14, 2025 (AFP) - AFP Special Advisory: Scam centres powered by Musk's Starlink boom despite crackdown

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Scam centres in Myanmar that were supposed to have been eradicated by a crackdown in February are expanding at a breathtaking pace, an AFP investigation has found, with one whole new section popping up in months. With some of the vast fraud factories covered in Elon Musk's Starlink satellite dishes, the powerful US Congress Joint Economic Committee has told AFP it is probing the company's involvement in a brutal business driven by violence and hu......

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