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ted talks-james veitch-replying to spam email

submitted by enoch

8 years 4 months ago

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.

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*audio *promote the funny

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Saturday, January 9th, 2016 7:34am PST - promote requested by eric3579.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrh9KbhrXD8

http://www.ted.com/talks/james_veitch_this_is_what_happens_when_you_reply_to_spam_email

thank you my friend.replaced and no longer audio!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrh9KbhrXD8

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Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Saturday, January 9th, 2016 9:15am PST - promote requested by eric3579.

I was kinda hoping for some statistics regarding his 3 years of spam replies.

Is this really where TED talks have fallen to? A guy trolling a spammer?

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The agony of trying to unsubscribe has been added as a related post - related requested by PlayhousePals on that post.

More adventures in replying to spam has been added as a related post - related requested by Nephelimdream on that post.

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