根据卫星影像分析，缅甸饱受战乱的妙瓦底地区在过去六个月内新建或大幅扩建了至少十二处疑似诈骗园区。国际正义使命组织的研究显示，自今年初以来，该地区至少出现了二十五个涉嫌诈骗的据点，大片森林被砍伐、土地被整平，取而代之的是数十栋建筑及大规模诈骗运营所需的基础设施。这些发现表明，去年缅甸军政府高调突击部分已知园区的行动几乎未能遏制这一高度暴利的犯罪产业。（关键数字： six months）
诈骗园区在过去十年间广泛出现于缅甸、柬埔寨和寮国等东南亚国家，通常由华人有组织犯罪集团运营，透过复杂的加密货币和感情诈骗手法，从全球受害者手中窃取数十亿美元。园区中的日常诈骗工作大量依赖人口贩运受害者——来自六十多个国家的人被虚假工作机会诱骗至此，被迫全天候进行诈骗活动，护照遭到没收，拒绝工作者则遭受殴打，近年来已有数十万人沦为受害者。
反人口贩运组织「全球施舍」的负责人指出，尽管去年进行了突击行动，但犯罪集团背后的核心实体几乎未受打击。当一个园区被突击时，幕后操控者只是将人员转移到其他园区。无人机影像证实，先前被认为已清空的九处据点目前都重新有人进驻，且有新的受害者被关押其中。此外，至少半数新建园区仍在使用SpaceX的星链卫星网路系统，尽管相关终端设备已遭美国执法部门下令扣押，但该公司为何无法切断这些连线仍令人费解。
Satellite imagery and analysis reviewed by WIRED reveal that at least a dozen suspected new scam compounds in Myanmar's war-torn Myawaddy region have been built or significantly expanded over the past six months. The International Justice Mission identified at least twenty-five alleged scamming sites that have appeared since early this year, with forests cleared and land flattened to make way for dozens of buildings and supporting infrastructure. This apparent growth demonstrates that the Myanmar military junta's highly publicized crackdown on compounds late last year did little to curb the enormously profitable criminal scamming industry.
Over the past decade, scam compounds—often run by Chinese organized crime groups—have proliferated across Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos, stealing billions of dollars worldwide through elaborate cryptocurrency and romance scams. The day-to-day operations rely heavily on human trafficking victims: people from over sixty countries are lured by false job promises, then forced to scam around the clock, with passports confiscated and physical abuse used to enforce compliance. Hundreds of thousands of trafficking victims have been trapped in these compounds in recent years, making the situation a full-scale global crisis that has prompted international sanctions.
Anti-trafficking organizations report that despite last year's raids, the criminal entities behind the operations remain largely untouched. When a compound is raided, operators simply relocate victims to other sites; drone footage has confirmed that nine previously emptied locations are now repopulated with new victims. Furthermore, at least half of the newly identified compounds continue to use SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet system, and it remains unclear why the company cannot shut off connections to known scam locations despite US law enforcement having ordered the seizure of some Starlink terminals used at these sites.