Project "mPower®"

Fun and skill-building for school children, teenagers and young adults to test and learn lateral thinking, ingenuity and perseverance. We want to inspire and encourage pupils and students from all backgrounds to consider a career in national security, law enforcement, investigations and cyber security

The concept of public challenges and puzzles by intelligence agencies has a long tradition and Artefaktum picks up this idea and pushes its opening to the public to inspire the next generation of investigators, cryptologists and mathematicians and analysts for the profession. Detecting, finding, collecting, and analyzing data and information, some of which is hidden or publicly available, is part of Artefaktum’s everyday job. We will now regularly publish kid-friendly tasks and puzzles that address the seven disciplines of languages, engineering, codebreaking, analysis, mathematics, coding, and cybersecurity – all key skills needed by national security and law enforcement agencies to keep our country safe.

Whilst the mPower challenges are designed for schools and colleges, we’re also encouraging the wider public to take on the riddles and puzzles to pit their wits against our puzzlers.

MEETING WITH AN INSIDER

During a large fraud case, you receive a call. A whistleblower* wants to talk and meet up. He insists on a discreet meeting point to discuss the subject matter and to share what he knows. You agree to meet and ask him to send an email with the location of choice.

5 minutes later you receive the mail with the following attachment.  Now you know where to meet him. Do you?

March 2023 Challenge

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Print out and share with the class or try to solve it on you own, or ask your friends, as it might be even more fun to team and work it out as group work.

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* Whistleblowers are the first line of defense against corruption, fraud, and wrongdoing and the single most effective source for information about fraud and other illegal activities. Despite the risk to their professional and personal lives, company insiders, government employees, and others with original information about illegal activity regularly come forward to report crimes that would otherwise go undetected. A study conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, it was found that professional auditors only detected 19% of fraudulent activities at private corporations, while whistleblowers detected and exposed 43%. According to the study, surveyed executives “estimated that the whistleblowers saved their shareholders billions of dollars.”

Mara Collin

SOCMINT TEAM

Let us know how you get on with our challenges.
Be sure to tag us in your posts and pictures and include the hashtag #Artefaktum. 
You got stuck? Catch up as we might have a hint or two for you!

Let us know how you get on with our challenges. Be sure to tag us in your posts and pictures and include the hashtag #Artefaktum. You got stuck? Catch up as we might have a hint or two for you!

Mara Collin

SOCMINT TEAM