easy mark
Con artist's dream
An easy mark is a person who is easily deceived, cheated, or taken advantage of—a ready victim for scams, manipulation, or exploitation.
The term comes from criminal slang, where a mark is a target or potential victim: Con artists love tourists—they're easy marks.
Someone gullible, naive, or overly trusting makes an easy mark.
Object of pursuit
- quarryPit for extracting rock
- preyAnimal being hunted
- victimOne harmed by another
- prospectPotential client or opportunity
subject · object · focus · setup · score · opportunity · sure thing · lock
Prone to blind trust
- trustingInclined to believe others
- naiveInnocently unsuspecting
- unsuspectingNot anticipating danger
- unwaryWithout due caution
guileless · ingenuous · unsophisticated · impressionable · believing · overtrusting · confiding · unquestioning
sucker
Easily fooled person
pushover · soft touch · pigeon · fall guy · stooge · gull · sap · mug · fish · sitting duck
target
Object of pursuit
prospect · subject · object · focus · setup · score · opportunity · sure thing · lock · guarantee
credulous
Prone to blind trust
- trustingInclined to believe others
- naiveInnocently unsuspecting
- unsuspectingNot anticipating danger
unwary · guileless · ingenuous · unsophisticated · impressionable · believing · overtrusting · confiding · unquestioning · unworldly
greenhorn
Inexperienced, gullible newcomer
yokel · tenderfoot · bumpkin · hick · ingenue · novice · neophyte · rookie · fledgling · newbie
- vulnerabilityvulnerability, vulnerable, defenselessness, defenseless, helplessness
- easy markssucker, dupe, patsy, pigeon, gull
- naivetenaivety, naive, innocence, gullible, gullibility
- naivetygreenhorn, newbie, tenderfoot, raw recruit, born yesterday
- suckerssucker, lollipop, Dum Dum, Tootsie Pop, all-day sucker
- conscon, scam, swindle, grift, hustle
easy markskeptic
One who doubts claims
tough customer · hard sell · nobody's fool · sharp cookie · cynic
easy markcon artist
Professional fraud perpetrator
grifter · scammer · swindler · confidence man · hustler
mark, easy, ease, uneasy, easing, easier, eased, uneasiness, eases