This Man’s Email Exchange With A ‘Dying’ Scammer Escalated Hilariously

Epoch Newsroom
5/8/2016
Updated:
5/9/2016

It can get pretty annoying when you have to delete a lot of spam from your email inbox.

In many cases, the spam outnumbers the email you actually want to read.

For the majority of us, our natural reaction is just to delete it as quickly as possible. But comedian James Veitch has a different approach. He’s spent two years replying to spam messages, and recently published some of the exchanges in a book called Dot Con.

“I set up multiple pseudonymous email accounts and began replying to spam. This must have put me on some sort of list because the spam came in a torrent and I replied to as much as I could,” he told Mashable.

Veitch’s approach led to some hilarious results, such as the exchange detailed below.