# This is what happens when you reply to spam email

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDGlobal>Geneva
- Speaker: James Veitch
- Year: 2015
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Society and politics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/james_veitch_this_is_what_happens_when_you_reply_to_spam_email)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [This is what happens when you reply to spam email](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/james_veitch_this_is_what_happens_when_you_reply_to_spam_email/2fb472c6e676), 10 min (TED's player)