The word "unwitting" means not knowing or being unaware. It describes someone who is innocent, naive or ignorant about something and has no idea that it's happening.
Usage examples
The company unknowingly used an unwitting employee's personal data for marketing purposes.
The thief took advantage of the unwitting tourist by pickpocketing their wallet.
The prankster played an unwitting joke on their friend by secretly replacing their phone with a fake one.
The politician's unintentional comment during the interview revealed his unwitting support for a controversial cause.
The scam artist manipulated the unwitting victims into giving away their personal banking information.
«Using the geolocation feature of the Pokemon Go app, the robbers were able to anticipate the location and level of seclusion of unwitting victims,» O'Fallon police Sgt. Bill Stringer said in a release. (fortune.com)
The result of this is that it helps to raise their awareness of how the characters can become unwitting victims of fraud. (elearningindustry.com)
Interspersing his narrative with tales of drowning islands and melting glaciers, he also fingers myopic journalists and environmental activists as unwitting accomplices in allowing global warming to go unchecked. (discovermagazine.com)