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Examples:

  • Purchasing Illegal Drugs to catch a supplier

  • Deploying a Bait Car to catch an auto thief

  • Posing as a client to catch a Prostitute or Pimp / escort agency

  • Posing as a prostitute to catch a client

  • Posing as someone who likes Child Pornography to catch a supplier

  • Posing as a supplier of child pornography to lure a Pedophile

  • Posing as a child in a Chat Room to lure a pedophile

  • Police arranging someone under the legal drinking age to ask an adult to buy Alcoholic Beverage for him or her (May 2004, Indio, California {Link without Title} )

  • posing as hit man to catch gang members or wanted murderers.

    • Law-enforcement may have to be careful not to ''provoke'' the commission of a crime by someone who would not normally be inclined to do so. In Common Law jurisdictions, the defendant may invoke the defense of Entrapment .

  • police role playing as Irish Republican drug runners to pressurise suspects with threats and misinformation (amounting to torture) hoping to extract information about a serious criminal offence ("OPERATION CENTURY". Essex Police. England. 1996).


A related matter is parking a car as a Honey Trap for car thieves, etc. In computing, a Honeypot can be used to gain information about a potential Cracker .


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