Honeypot / decoy trap

A deliberately planted decoy resource — such as a fake contact email or trap URL — used to detect, trap, or waste the effort of automated scrapers and harvester bots.

grounded in: commit 6b22a13 'self-improve: Plant a honeypot decoy email to poison harvester bots' + 5b366d8 email obfuscation; honeypots/tarpits are an established, durable security technique in the live bot arms