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REGISTRATION CLOSED! Links for the conference will be sent by November 15, 2023 if your payment has been received.

The OSBM Office of Internal Audit has teamed with the Office of the State Controller to host the 8th Annual Fraud Busters Virtual Conference. The session will be a half day training opportunity for internal auditors on November 16, 2023 from 12:00pm - 4:30pm. There is a $15.00 admittance fee to attend the conference. A total of 4 CPE hours can be earned. This training opportunity is open to the public. Please note there is limited capacity.

Program Level: Basic
Prerequisites: None
Advance Preparation: None
Delivery Method: Group-Live Virtual
Field of Study: Auditing (4),
Recommended CPE Credits: 4 credits
Cost: $15

NCFS Payment Info:

Payment can be made by credit card or electronic transfer in the North Carolina Financial System (NCFS) to the Office of the State Controller. Agencies should register attendees individually (with separate email addresses). Agencies using NCFS can submit one payment to cover all registration fees if all necessary notations have been made.

If you are paying by electronic transfer, please follow the instructions below:
• NCAS agencies: Use IGO vendor number 561611588-03. For the cash transfer, in the NCFS Notes field, you must include the following for proper processing: full names of all attendees and reference 2023 8th Annual Fraud Busters Conference. If this information is not included in the Notes field, the transfer will be rejected in NCFS.
• Non-NCAS agencies paying through NCFS: Use agency number 1400 for payment. In the NCFS Notes field, you must include the following for proper processing: full names of all attendees and reference 2023 8th Annual Fraud Busters Conference. If this information is not included in the Notes field, the transfer will be rejected in NCFS.

Refund/Cancellation Policy:
If you are registered for the training and are unable to attend, please let us know so we may remove you from the attendee list. There are limited seats available for this event.

If you have questions, feel free to contact internalauditinfo@osbm.nc.gov

We look forward to seeing you.

Featured Speaker - Kelly Paxton

I’m known most as the Pink Collar Crime lady but that's not all I speak about. I love speaking and training. Cheesy life-long learner here but there is nothing better than planning a presentation and delivering it in the most relevant and meaningful way.

I didn’t start out in law enforcement but that’s where I have spent most of my career. While working at a financial services firm, a client was arrested on wire fraud charges. This ended up leading me to a new, much more exciting career as a special agent for US Customs. I was able to work all types of cases including white collar fraud, money laundering and narcotics cases. I was used to investigating “bad guys.”

I have worked in the public and private sector. My cases have included embezzlement, conflict of interest, intellectual property, Open Source Intelligence and fraud. My most recent position was at Nike where I was recruited for my expertise in Open Source Intelligence and being a Certified Fraud Examiner.

I also was a contract investigator for the Department of Homeland Security doing background investigations. I have performed hundreds of top secret clearance background investigations for the federal government. (Not Edward Snowden's though!)

From 2007-2009 I was the fraud analyst at the Washington County Sheriff’s Office Fraud and Identity Theft Enforcement team. I was responsible for preparing cases for prosecution. This included testifying before Grand Jury.

From 2009-2014 I had my own firm, Financial CaseWorks LLC, which specialized in financial and workplace investigations. I worked criminal defense cases which gave me a new and broader perspective on investigations.

In 2014 I went to work at Nike in their Operational Resilience division. I investigated high level conflict of interest, intellectual property, sexual harassment, embezzlement and theft cases.