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The government also intends to strengthen the powers regulator Ofsted has to investigate and fine "exploitative" children's home providers that prey on a stretched care system.

The demand for Glastonbury tickets inevitably attracts scam artists and fraudsters, who prey on people's desperation to separate them from their money.

Expect plenty of hot takes, including a barrage of think pieces, seeing as, in this telling, the Wizard is an authoritarian leader using scapegoating to prey on — and stoke — people’s fears.

More importantly, there’s the inevitability that Trump and a paid-off Congress will shove aside the Biden era’s aggressive regulators, like Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler, and allow the digital assets sector to freely prey on more retail investors and promulgate more scams.

“Every day, sexual predators use the internet’s relative anonymity to prey on vulnerable youth,” U.S.