Examples
- Deploying a bait car (also called a honey trap) to catch an auto thief
- Setting up a seemingly vulnerable honeypot computer to lure and gain information about hackers
- Arranging someone under the legal drinking age to ask an adult to buy an alcoholic beverage or tobacco products for them.
- Posing as someone who is seeking illegal drugs, contraband or child pornography to catch a supplier; or as a supplier to catch a customer.
- Passing off fake explosives to a would-be terror bomber.
- Posing as a child in a chat room to lure a child molester
- An undercover officer posing as a potential customer to raid illegal prostitution.
- An undercover officer posing as a prostitute to raid illegal solicitation.
- An undercover officer posing as a hitman to prevent potential murder-for-hire.
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