Tracy Hall Fell in Love With a Con Man. Then He Stole $317,000

Tracy Hall thought she had met the man she would spend the rest of her life with. Instead, she discovered that the man she knew as Max Tavita was actually convicted con man Hamish McLaren and that he had stolen $317,000 from her. Tracy joins Marie Claire Australia Editor Georgie McCourt to reveal how the romance scam unfolded, how she rebuilt her life and learned to trust herself again, and why she is now fighting for safer online dating in an age of increasingly sophisticated scams, AI and deepfakes.