This would be a better story if it named someone who has been targeted with this technique.
No specific instances where the “honey trap” was successfully employed is mentioned, but a so-called “Royal Concierge” program took advantage of hotel reservation systems to track the physical location of foreign diplomats and issue “daily alerts to analysts working on governmental hard targets.” Royal Concierge then attempts to manipulate the reservation so the diplomat in question stays at a hotel friendly to the GCHQ’s SIGINT (signal-intelligence) program. Others are tracked so they can be monitored in-person.
http://rt.com/news/gchq-sex-dirty-tricks-snowden-116/
You mean someone like free republic. It’s been done!
They spend years posting and gaining our trust then ......