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.

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?

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

> 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.

fake real one