We all know suspicious emails or spam: unsolicited insurance bonds, diamond-encrusted safes, close friends helpless in some foreign country.
They appear in inbox and the standard process is to delete them as soon as they are seen (if they are not directly spammed).
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 stake in a very lucrative work.
Watch the video presented by TED