Mark Evans sent along the following clip. It brings home the necessity for continued telecom fraud monitoring. He notes the old school phone hacking is still going on. Here's the story in a nutshell.

A recently installed voicemail system at the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was recently breached to the tune of $12,000 worth of phone calls to numbers in the Middle East and Asia. Attacks of this sort have been around for years, and trained administrators know how to put security measures in place. FEMA issued a warning about this type of attack five years ago. While this is definitely not a high-tech breach, it illustrates the necessity of not only defending against the latest threats but the old stuff too.

Mark Evans is a principal of BottaBoom Consulting, L.L.C. He is full of interesting stories. In fact he served as the expert from the telecom fraud chapter in my new book, Fraud in Accounts Payable: How to Prevent It. As I think I mentioned in an earlier edition, my publisher beat the publication date and the $49 book is now available for sale.

If you haven't entered our AP Appreciation Week contest, please see last week's e-zine or e-mail publisher@ap-now.com for the details. This is one of our "everyone's a winner" contests - although a few are bigger winners than others.

We will run our annual low-cost Webinar in November and are working out the final details so watch future issues for the details.

As we mentioned last week, we are planning a special product package to celebrate Accounts Payable Appreciation Week (October 20-24). We've got just under $250 worth of products for $99. The sale will end with the end of AP Appreciation Week. And, we've got a special bonus for the paid subscribers to our print newsletter, Accounts Payable Now & Tomorrow. They can substitute the Travel & Entertainment Best Practices book ($65 John Wiley & Sons) for any item in the set potentially bringing it to over $300. Details are at the link below.

Well, you've probably guessed from the title what the future holds for the paper invoice. As you may remember a reader wrote to inquire if vendors could refuse to supply paper invoices and the question triggered quite a discussion. While we never did find an answer to the legality of the issue, it quickly became apparent that the invoice landscape was rapidly and radically changing.

We've combined the information we found with a few other best practice articles related to invoices into a new white paper called "The Demise of the Paper Invoice." We have already sent copies to all who participated. Additionally, we will e-mail copies of the paper this week to all paid subscribers of Accounts Payable Now & Tomorrow as our way of thanking them for their support.

We have also made the white paper available for sale for others interested in the issue. It is only $29.95 - and in keeping with the theme, is only available via e- mail. So, if you order it, please make sure to include your e-mail address. The link below will take you to the order form for the invoice white paper. If you wish to pay by credit card, simply click on the link in the form.

As promised, we return this week for job listings. But first, we have some neat online learning resources, including the "find" I mentioned in the opening paragraph.

Career Tip: It's often recommended that accounts payable professionals learn a foreign language if they want to broaden their skillset and become more attractive to international clients. Whenever I see that advice, I think, "that's just great - how can anyone working full time accomplish that goal?" Well, now thanks to the BBC, you can either brush up on that language you took in high school and/or college or learn a new one. Use the link below to hook up to the BBC's online language courses.

And speaking of online learning, you may recall last week I indicated that I believed it would be impossible to find online resources for advanced Excel - well apparently, one more time (sigh) I was wrong. A reader (thanks Mary ellen) wrote to share information about an article that contained ten links. The article (with the links) can be viewed in its entirety at http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/119 91574?f=home_featured

Job Listings

• Senior Manager of Disbursements
• Disbursement Manager (AP + Payroll)
• Disbursements Manager

If you are coming to one of our Unclaimed Property seminars and need a hotel room for an overnight stay, don't forget to make your reservation ASAP. The timeframe for the room blocks are running out. To make reservations for the Los Angeles event to www.b everlyhillsresidenceinn.com and in the CORPORATE CODE box put APNAPNA or you can call 866-440-5370 and ask for the Accounts Payable Now Rate.

For the Cincinnati event, call 1-800-266-6605.

Of course, if you don't need a room for an overnight stay, there is still plenty of time to make your reservation.

And speaking of unclaimed property, I was chuckling over a long article in our local paper on the topic, when I got a note from Will Yancey alerting me to the piece. It is titled, "What's yours is theirs" and the subtitle says, "Delaware is especially good at seizing -- and keeping -- unclaimed assets." Unfortunately, it's true. You can read it at http://w ww.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article? AID=/200809010345/BUSINESS/809010316

Changing jobs? Send a note to publisher@ap- now.com and we'll gladly change your e-mail address in our records. Not sure what your new address will be? No problem. Send a note changing your address to your personal e-mail account and when you get settled, send another with your new work e-mail - or leave it with your personal account, if you prefer.

No room again for our Top Clicks or tidbits on our outstanding Fall Webinar series. I hope you'll check out our upcoming Duplic ate Payment Obliteration Webinar series, as well as our B-Notices and other 1099- related events.

I'd also like to share that we are going gangbusters ahead with our duplicate payment obliteration resource centers. We are really excited about the number of vendors who have signed on to sponsor the center so we are going to be able to bring you a number of articles, tips, and best of all diagnostic tools - all free of charge. We'll have more about that venture, scheduled to debut on October 1, in the coming weeks.

Until next week, ringraziamenti per ascoltare - which apparently means, thanks for listening in Italian. (I cheated and used translation software).

Mary Schaeffer
Accounts Payable Now & Tomorrow, a CRYSTALLUS, Inc. publication

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