easy marks
Scammers love them
Easy marks are people who are easily deceived, cheated, or taken advantage of—ideal targets for scams, cons, or manipulation.
The phrase comes from criminal slang where a mark is a potential victim.
Someone naive, trusting, or inattentive makes an easy mark: Tourists are easy marks for pickpockets.
The elderly have become easy marks for phone scammers.
- soft touchEasily persuaded person
- gullibleEasily deceived
- born yesterdayExtremely naive and credulous
- vulnerableOpen to attack
- pushoverEasily defeated opponent
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easy marksskeptics
Those who doubt claims
cynics · doubters · nobody's fool · critical thinkers · disbelievers
easy markscon artists
People who cheat others
grifters · scammers · hustlers · swindlers · confidence men
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