It makes sense when you look at it from the outside and when the reasoning for it is given to you. I just don't know if I would have figured it out on my own. This honeypot scheme has only been used domestically, but I'm sure that other countries are working on something similar within their own borders. Here is how it works here. There are at least a half dozen of these going on right this second that I know about so there are probably a lot more. Here are a few of the ones I know about.
#1 - This former A list influencer/yachter finally got herself an A list celebrity. Using that celebrity, she managed to hit the news a lot, including in an unexpected way. Using that same news, she gets a couple other women recruited. Now, this particular yachter is actually working for a political party. She and her barely legal friends use the powers of the A list celebrity to meet rich and powerful men who don't care about anything but getting into the pants of the aforementioned ladies and everything must be legit because there is an list celebrity who is also one of their heroes here. Oh, and then one of the rich and powerful guys really gets caught up in it and that leads to more rich and powerful men thinking it is all good.
#2 - This barely legal yachter has been in this space before. Several times. Her scheme works much the same way as #1. She used a permanent A list actor as her tool to legitimacy and to get her name and face out there in public. Everyone knows she is a yachter. She is not trying to hide she is a yachter. But, because she has been seen with the permanent A list actor and the Oscar winning actor and that group of friends, no one thinks she could also be a honeypot. She is one of the best in the world, but when she does it, she does it for a specific country.
#3 - One that didn't work out is this former tween actress turned singer who was awful at it and probably would have been killed but she was just so dumb and so awful at it that no one actually believed she could be a honeypot.