Books to Read
The Last Victim by Tracey Hall
As Joan Didion said in her book The Year of Magical Thinking:
“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant. You sit down to dinner, and life as you know it changes.”
In 2017, this is exactly what happened to Tracy Hall. In the ordinary instant, she found out that the man she had been in a relationship with for nearly two years turned out to be one of Australia’s most prolific con men.
This is a book about total betrayal, total loss, and also a story about resilience—an incredibly personal one, too.
Keanu Reeves is Not in Love with You
by Becky Holmes
Becky Holmes is one hilarious woman who became an X—Twitter back then—phenomenon while she was winding up real scammers and publishing their interactions with their targets.
Partly funny, partly sad and partly personal, Keanu Reeves is Not in Love with You is a first-hand encounter with romance scammers, scam victims and anti-scam advocates.
The Psychology of Fraud, Persuasion and Scam Techniques:
Understanding What Makes Us Vulnerable by Martina Dove
This is one of those books that pulls up its sleeves and dives into hows and whys we fall for the scams, what technologies are being used to manipulate others, how we perceive scam victimisation as a society and what we can do to prevent scams happening in the future.
This is the second edition which is published in 2025.
The Emotional Impact of Being Scammed
and How to Recover
by Cathy Wilson, LPC, ACS
The aftereffects of a scam can be excruciatingly devastating, leaving its victims isolated, alone and helpless.
The Emotional Impact of Being Scammed and How to Recover is written by licensed therapist Cathy Wilson and is probably the only book to help fraud victims restore their identity and heal from the pain and trauma of being scammed.
And it’s not just for fraud victims; Cathy Wilson’s book also helps any friend or family member of fraud victims.
