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platforms that would also be marketed on the other webpages as so trusted and competitive. The point
is that does not go like that! To make your first million dollars you need to work hard for many years and
there are no investments platforms that would take the few thousand dollars from you and return you the
millions at the end of the season. Even if you save the money in some legal banking it’s clear that the
interest rates could be only several percents out of total and that’s so rational.

So, the next times when you discover the funding website think twice before you make any transaction
on. Maybe it’s the best to report that case to the authorities as they could advise you what to do then.
The heaps of those platforms could serve for collecting the funds for terrorism or another serious offense.
The law enforcement agencies would use their security researchers that would provide so skillfully written
reports about such web locations and once the policing members get such information they would try to
dig deep in order to figure out who got behind such a business. The reason why those websites would
appear at so many places across the web is the marketing and nothing else. The scheme is usually like
that the investment platform gurus would maintain a plenty of websites and they would use them to leave
the impression of the trusted organizations. There would not be the obvious correlation between those
websites, but they all would support that funding option.

The role of cyber defense in such criminal schemes could be to do some tracking of the money
transactions and try to trace the main bank account as well as the purposes of such gathered funds. In
other words, there is no money without hard work and if you want to show your brightness be intelligent
as security researcher is and just aware your local authorities about your findings. They would know what
to do and apparently, you would be in safe hands, so far.

About The Author

Milica D. Djekic is an Independent Researcher from
Subotica, Republic of Serbia. She received her engineering
background from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Belgrade. She writes for some domestic and
overseas presses and she is also the author of the book
“The Internet of Things: Concept, Applications and
Security” being published in 2017 with the Lambert
Academic Publishing. Milica is also a speaker with the
BrightTALK expert’s channel. She is the member of an
ASIS International since 2017 and contributor to the
Australian Cyber Security Magazine since 2018. Milica's
research efforts are recognized with Computer Emergency
Response Team for the European Union (CERT-EU), Censys Press, BU-CERT UK and EASA European
Centre for Cybersecurity in Aviation (ECCSA). Her fields of interests are cyber defense, technology and
business. Milica is a person with disability.

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