• Scott
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    137 hours ago

    They are catching scams by running their own scam?

    • @[email protected]
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      207 hours ago

      The FBI loooooves themselves some honeypots.

      Why go catch criminals when you can set up some links/a token/whatever and they’ll come running to you and do the incriminating part themselves AND leave the logs of said activity in your possession?

      Much simpler!

      • @Venat0r
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        24 hours ago

        Wouldn’t that be entrapment though?

        • @[email protected]
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          21 hour ago

          Generally not. Entrapment is very specific, and leaving you the option of doing something illegal without pushing you to do it is decidedly not entrapment.

        • @[email protected]
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          83 hours ago

          To add more detail to the other reply, it’s only entrapment if they coerce you into doing something you wouldn’t have otherwise done.

          A cop comes up to you and goes ‘bro, lets go steal that car!’ would probably be entrapment.

          Cops putting a car on a street waiting for someone to steal it wouldn’t be.

        • Aatube
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          54 hours ago

          no, because they only provided the opportunity