Tracy’s dashing investor boyfriend conned her out of $317k. She shares the red flags she missed as a warning to other women

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Tracy Hall was tricked out of her life savings by her then-boyfriend — who was not who he appeared to be. Now the romance scam victim is warning other women of the red flags she missed, and the steps they can take to avoid being conned.

Tracy Hall speaks about being scammed by Hamish McLaren Hall says she quickly fell in love with the dashing investor she knew as Max Tavita in 2016. She soon signed over more than $317,000 — her life savings — to Tavita to invest in what she thought was a self-managed superannuation fund for her. However, it later turned out the fund was not in her name. As her life fell apart, Hall discovered Tavita was actually a serial fraudster named Hamish McLaren who had conned $7.

 

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