We all know the suspects messages electronics post officey or spam: unclaimed insurance bonds, diamond-encrusted safes, close friends stranded in a foreign land.
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?
Author and comedian James Veitch recounts a hilarious correspondence he had for weeks with one Spammer who offered to give him a share in a very lucrative work.
Watch the video presented by TED