[killingtime74]

Nit. Isn't it a real honeypot, not a fake one?

[stavros]

It's a fake honeypot, you investigate it to see how it's done and they send guns and drugs to your house instead.

[BLKNSLVR]

Yeah, that confused me as well.

Is it a honeypot, or does it just look like a honeypot? And if it just looks like a honeypot, isn't that a honeypot? or if it looks like a honeypot that isn't a honeypot does that mean it's the actual thing?

[IIAOPSW]

Its a honeypotpot

[imcritic]

No, it's a honeyhoneypot.

[sundarurfriend]

I assume the word is in there for the sake of people who don't know what a honeypot is. It gets them curious that law enforcement set up something fake, even if they don't immediately know what it is for.

[JumpCrisscross]

> Nit. Isn't it a real honeypot, not a fake one?

The lack of even taking your payment details makes it look either fake, as in still being built or built as a demo, or not being a serious operation.

[indigo945]

Yes, this surprised me as well. Credit card and Paypal information should give the police everything they need to identify the criminal (in a way that's much more simple and reliable than via IP address, which may be obfuscated via a VPN or similar). Why not take it, it's free?

[Barbing]

Prove intent at point of “clicking pay” (technically!), to snare those who’d get cold feet entering their credit card.

Why not take their Bitcoin though… maybe they might be building other cases or something

[ralferoo]

Probably doing so would be against the ToS of the payment providers.

[nicman23]

fake real one