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It is deception, but it doesn't have to be decoy or fraudulent. It could actually provide the service or deliver goods. The point is that the operator isn't running it for the reason they say they are, but rather to gather info or whatever. Specifically in cyber defense a honeypot is sometimes a fake server that serves as an intrusion detection alarm, but that's actually the odd one out when you look at how the term is used more broadly.