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A form of bait designed to manipulate a user into producing evidence against themselves—admissions, confessions, screenshots, or other material that can be used to harm them. Evidencebaiting involves creating situations where the target feels safe enough to reveal damaging information: a private conversation that isn't private, a confession encouraged by false friendship, a document shared in supposed confidence. The baiter cultivates trust, provides opportunity, and waits for the target to incriminate themselves. Once the evidence is obtained, it's weaponized—used for blackmail, exposure, reporting, or public humiliation. Evidencebait is the art of turning people into their own prosecutors.
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