What do you do when you want to get the word out on fighting cybercrime?  If you are the FBI you turn to billboards.  KIVI-TV  reports that the Salt Lake City Division of the FBI is using digital billboards to promote its Internet Crime Complaint Center, also known as IC3.

The initiative is part of what’s known as Operation Wellspring, launched in 2013, combining the efforts of the FBI and its state and local law enforcement partners to attack the threat of cyber-crimes.

There are currently ten FBI field offices that have Cyber Task Forces that participate in Operation Wellspring.  The CTFs connect state and local law enforcement officers and government offices with federal cyber investigative resources.

Once the IC3 receives a complaint filed by a victim, the analysts uses this data to create intelligence documents targeting a threat within the area that a CTF covers. The information is then provided to the CTF and utilized by state and local task force officers who have been trained to investigate internet-facilitated crimes.

The digital billboards will run until August 12th and can be found in ten locations.  

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