TED Video: This is what happens when you reply to spam email

[Nelson Vergel]

So funny!!!

"Suspicious emails: unclaimed insurance bonds, diamond-encrusted safe deposit boxes, close friends marooned in a foreign country. They pop up in our inboxes, and standard procedure is to delete on sight. But what happens when you reply? Follow along as writer and comedian James Veitch narrates a hilarious, weeks-long exchange with a spammer who offered to cut him in on a hot deal."
http://www.ted.com/talks/james_veitch_this_is_what_happens_when_you_reply_to_spam_email

 

[OMI100]

Good one...
I came across something similar a few years ago on the web. E-Mail scam. The folks here in the states worked with some techies in London to trace it to an internet café. I was laughing so hard I almost passed out.... They ended up mailing a box with bricks to the scammer as a top of the line Apple laptop and declared the actual price for a top of the line Apple computer. The scammer had to pay the duties on it to get it out of English customs I wish I could find the story again.