2025 Business Fraud Survival Camp

Fraud isn’t a matter of if—it’s a matter of when.

Welcome to Fraud Happens: 2025 Business Fraud Survival Camp—an interactive, engaging, and completely different approach to fraud prevention. This isn’t your typical lecture or binder-on-the-shelf seminar. It’s a hands-on survival experience where you’ll work through real-world fraud cases, sharpen your instincts, and leave prepared to fight back.

Why We’re Doing This

At Hometown Bank, we know fraud isn’t a problem that stops at the bank doors—it impacts every business in our community. Traditional fraud education doesn’t resonate, and most businesses don’t have time to create their own training.

So we did the work for you—building an engaging, interactive program that makes fraud education enjoyable, memorable, and impactful. And because we’re committed to our community, we’re offering this event FREE to local businesses. Fraud is a real-life survival challenge. The threats are everywhere—from phishing emails and fake invoices to payroll scams and ransomware attacks. Criminals are constantly adapting, waiting for just one slip-up. The question is: when the pressure is on, will your business be prepared to survive?

What You’ll Experience:

· Fraud Survival Scenarios – Step into real-world cases and work with your “team” to uncover red flags, identify weak spots, and find a way out.

· Survival Skills Training – Learn how to prevent, detect, and respond to fraud before it takes you down.

· Fraud Survival Kit – Take home checklists, templates, and resources that give you a lifeline when fraud strikes.

· Expert Guides – Hear practical strategies from banking, cybersecurity, and law enforcement professionals who battle fraud daily.

· Campfire Connections – Network with fellow business leaders and community partners over refreshments.

Why Attend:

· Build confidence under pressure with step-by-step response strategies.

· Strengthen your defenses with checklists and tools you can apply immediately.

· Learn how to outlast fraud attempts by building a stronger culture and resilient processes.

· Leave with the skills, resources, and connections you need to not just play the fraud game—but to survive it.

· Enter to win great raffle baskets and prizes!

Fraud Happens: Business Survival Camp isn’t another fraud lecture— it’s your training ground. Because when fraud happens, your survival depends on what you do next.

Dress comfortably 🔥 Camp Attire Encouraged

Leave the business suits at home — this is Survival Camp! Dress in business-casual or “campfire comfortable” clothing so you can dive into activities, move around during the exercises, and enjoy the day. Think less boardroom, more adventure-ready!

Info: Fraud isn’t fun—but it happens. And when it does, it can cost your business thousands. That’s why Hometown Bank created the Business Fraud Survival Camp—a free, hands-on event where you’ll learn to spot and stop fraud in real time.

This isn’t another boring seminar. It’s immersive, camp-themed training featuring the FBI, interactive tabletop fraud scenarios, and survival-themed raffle prizes like a cappuccino machine, biometric safe, and emergency kits. Every attendee gets a Fraud Survival Camp t-shirt and take-home resources.

You’ll work with a team, investigate evidence, decide how fraud happened, and build a plan to remediate and prevent it. Then, stick around for Campfire Connections—networking at the hotel bar with other local leaders.

Join us October 1st at the Kent State University Hotel & Conference Center. Seating is limited to 100 participants—reserve your spot today and become part of our community fraud-fighting network.

Info: Join the FBI and Hometown Bank for an engaging and informative survival camp for fraud.

Info: After a day of sharpening your fraud survival skills, it’s time to regroup at the Hotel & Conference Center bar for Campfire Connections. Just like any good camp, the day doesn’t end with the training—it ends with camaraderie, conversation, and a chance to strengthen the community that keeps us all safer.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Kent State University Hotel & Conference Center, 215 South Depeyster Street, Kent, United States