honey trap

honey trap
   an attempt to seduce for subsequent blackmail or exposure
   The sweet experience ensnares the victim, who is usually male. Both as a noun and as a verb:
    He was later awarded £20,000 damages in a French court which heard allegations that he had walked into a honey trap designed to disgrace him. (Daily Telegraph, 24 February 2001 — the seductress was named as Miss Bare Breasts of Belgium) ... the arrest of a Marine Embassy official who had been 'honey-trapped' by a woman working for the KGB. (Pincher, 1987)

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