We all know suspicious emails or spam: unclaimed insurance bonds, diamond-covered safes, close friends helpless in a foreign country.
They appear in the inbox and the standard procedure is to delete them as soon as we see them (if they have not been sent directly to spam).
But what if you answer?
The writer and comedian James Veitch recounts a hilarious correspondence he had for weeks with a spammer who offered to give him a share in a very lucrative job.
Watch the video presented by TED
