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This week the CFCA is holding their latest telecommunications fraud educational event. If you wanted to encapsulate the "motto" of the ever growing and dispersed population of fraudsters targeting the telecom industry, it might be the following:

"You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended."

And the message for the security professionals, who are in attendance tasked with thwarting those fraudsters, could be described as:

"We also know there are "known unknowns"; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also "unknown unknowns" — the ones we don't know we don't know."

Yes, yes. It might not be the best to use Donald Rumsfeld against the strategic master of Sun Tzu. But the concept is that the CFCA brings to light through these events is to think outside the box to find the "unknown unknowns" because that exactly where fraudsters will make their "undefended attacks". When a telecom fraud or security organization can do that, they will have mastered half the battle in fighting fraud.

If you are one of those fraud or security professionals, I would recommend making plans for any of the upcoming CFCA events.

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