Wealthy political donors sometimes make easy marks for campaign operatives.
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They seem like easy marks for a con like Donald Trump.
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We were easy marks for those who felt threatened by our findings.
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It shows us whom the predators see as the easy marks for exploitation.
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Some evangelicals' idolization of Scripture made them easy marks for unscrupulous dealers, scholars say.
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Whether the subject is celebrities or politics, readers can be easy marks for comforting tales.
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Since celebrities don't enjoy looking like easy marks, however, they tend to keep mum about the issue.
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Not to have taken millions in low-hanging speaking fees from easy marks would have been positively un-American.
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For the past decade, evangelicals have been easy marks, and I hope that people won't fall for these things.
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The entire thing was cooked up by a Harvard grad named Allen Baler, who saw paranoid conservatives as easy marks.
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The show has a con man's view of human nature: People are easy marks, because they're greedy and willing to take shortcuts.
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"Many seem to assume it's like selling fidget spinners—easy profit off easy marks—without appreciating the responsibility it brings," he said.
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The animals tended to swim close to shore, making them easy marks for whalers who hunted them to the brink of extinction.
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They'll stay with him only so long as they allow themselves to be easy marks for the insulting con of this presidency.
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And I think they are easy marks for people like Samantha Bee to be snotty too, and to attack and to try to tear down.
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"They see us as easy marks, and they know that most journalists don't know what 8chan is, let alone understand the ideological terrain there," he said.
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Conceivably, every business and consumer using the Internet is a potential target for ransomware perpetrators, although small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) have become particularly easy marks.
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All he did was demonstrate once again that his supposed antagonists in the political media have short memories, which makes them easy marks for a tired con.
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" Of a novel called "Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush," he said, "The easy marks from the pie-belt may fall for it, but no more for us.
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We are easy marks for faux Nigerian princes now, when chaos rules, the American identity wobbles, and technology is transforming our lives in awe-inspiring and awful ways.
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Those who were ordered out of the country years ago are especially easy marks for an agency with limited resources for enforcement — especially if they walk straight into an immigration office.
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And those who venture into the territory, as Jonathan Franzen did, here and there, in his most recent novel, "Purity," make easy marks for wags in search of laughs and online traffic.
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In his short pants, sweatshirt and knitted wool hat, Mr. Natanzon could look like an amiable loser to his easy marks, as he baited them with his nonstop babble and swaggering hubris.
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Aware that Yankee buyers in Europe were being treated as easy marks, Forbes saw that, if he was to avoid being swindled, he needed to educate himself in the material construction of Old Master paintings.
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"I guess it was a bit of an eye-opener in terms of when we're at some of these big events, we do make easy marks for criminals who are quite clever at what they do," Stenson said.
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But Spencer is following the tried-and-true model of far-right provocateurs like Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos, recognizing that university campuses and 19-year-old activists are easy marks for the snake-oil salespeople of white nationalism.
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BuzzFeed has discovered a dog in Mexico City that sits outside a Little Caesars and stares at the customers inside with big puppy-dog eyes until the easy marks cave and come out to give him some of their pizza.
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If you hate the media, you're more likely to be fooled by a fake headline I've always said that people who spend a lot of time criticizing whatever it is they mean by "the media" turn out to be easy marks.
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After classifying the criminal activity by type and tallying the number of incidents that occurred within a half-mile of each Pokéstop, Aizman identified the most dangerous Pokéstops—the locations where distracted players could become easy marks for opportunistic criminals.
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It is a tricky business trying to decide which movements are worth picking up on and which are worth ignoring in a split second window, and when fighters stop reacting to feints they make themselves easy marks for clean leads.
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The incarcerated, it turns out, are easy marks for identity thieves and, as that crime grows—up 16 percent according to an annual study released last year—more prisoner Social Security numbers and names are being stolen for tax fraud and other purposes.
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Some of his densely nervous ink-on-watercolor-paper drawings, prints, and paintings show candidates like Trump and Clinton in familiar political settings, speaking from a platform packed with hypocrites and fools — all in a more or less traditional editorial page manner, going for easy marks.
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In public, those working in sales or recruitment in Europe dismiss that allegation — two sporting directors told The Times in 2017 that they work "with one price in mind" for a player, regardless of origin or destination — but there can be little doubt that, at the very least, many see English teams as easy marks.
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Beyond the Grave Alison Hart, the charismatic, tormented telepath who makes her living on stage in Hilary Mantel's witty, twisted 2005 novel "Beyond Black," can hear the thoughts of the dead and the living, but she fakes her way through predictions, deftly exploiting easy marks in the audience — underappreciated women, indigestion sufferers — to keep them entertained.
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Native trees and plants have often lost their defenses — the islands have stingless nettles and thornless raspberries — and in many cases grow more slowly, making them easy marks for more aggressive species like miconia, a flowering plant from Central America that grows like a weed, produces thousands of seeds and shades out everything in its vicinity.
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" "No one was ever turned away from the door and whatever the person asked for, whether money, a winter overcoat, or a meal, was given."McCasland, 184-86. "Savvy London residents were appalled by Chambers' seeming lack of discernment in a city known for its network of beggars who quickly told each other the location of 'easy marks.'" Chambers replied, "My responsibility is to give.
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In this scam, the artists pose as ticket control staff on public transport connections. They tend to look for tourists as easy marks, and therefore target train connections from the airport. They will ask to see the passenger's tickets, and once they have found a suitable mark, will claim that something is wrong with the ticket they hold. They will then claim that an instant payment is required to avoid further legal troubles.
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Some Hispanics who became Mexican Americans after the Gadsden Purchase had limited understanding of English and a naivete regarding American property law even four decades after the transition, and made easy marks for the unscrupulous. The infamous Arizona Rangers sometimes enforced interlopers' property claims.Yjinio Aguirre, Echoes of the Conquistadores: History of a Pioneer Family in the Southwest (privately published, 1983), 57, cited in Sheridan, 72. The First World War brought a rise in the market for cotton and the value of farmland, and still more of the original homesteaders felt pressured to sell.
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