{"id":968548,"date":"2025-10-21T08:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T02:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=968548"},"modified":"2025-10-21T09:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:59:09","slug":"myanmar-junta-says-raided-scam-compound-seized-30-starlink-receivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/21\/myanmar-junta-says-raided-scam-compound-seized-30-starlink-receivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar junta says raided scam compound, seized 30 Starlink receivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yangon: Myanmar&#8217;s junta raided one of the country&#8217;s most notorious internet scam centres and seized Starlink devices, it said Monday, after an AFP investigation revealed an explosion in their use in the billion-dollar black market.<\/p>\n<p>Internet sweat shops where workers scam unsuspecting foreigners with business or romance schemes have thrived in war-ravaged Myanmar&#8217;s lawless border regions since the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>A transnational push by Thai, Chinese and Myanmar authorities starting in February resulted in a huge crackdown releasing around 7,000 workers, many who say they were trafficked to work in the fortified compounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yangon: Myanmar&#8217;s junta raided one of the country&#8217;s most notorious internet scam centres and seized Starlink devices, it said Monday, after an AFP investigation revealed an explosion in their use in the billion-dollar black market. Internet sweat shops where workers scam unsuspecting foreigners with business or romance schemes have thrived in war-ravaged Myanmar&#8217;s lawless border regions since the coronavirus pandemic. A transnational push by Thai, Chinese and Myanmar authorities starting in February resulted in a huge crackdown releasing around 7,000 workers, many who say they were trafficked to work in the fortified compounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}