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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”19144″ img_size=”full” alignment=”right” style=”vc_box_border”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][sppmemberplayer sppmp_mp4_video=”/videos/JamesVeitch_2015G-480p.mp4″ sppmp_shwidth=”853″ sppmp_shheight=”480″ sppmp_shselectskin=”minimalist” sppmp_enablepreload=”true” sppmp_showfullscreen=”true” sppmp_progresscolor=”#13a800″ sppmp_buffercolor=”#bcbcbc” sppmp_shborderstyle=”solid” sppmp_shvisalign=”right” sppmp_shsutoplay=”true”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
Why you should listen
Packed full of Nigerian princes, can’t miss investment opportunities and eligible Russian brides, James Veitch’s correspondence with email spammers leads to surprising, bizarre and usually hilarious results. Out of this experiment came his first book, Dot Con. In 2014, his first solo comedy show The Fundamental Interconnectedness of Everyone with an Internet Connection, premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe to wide acclaim. His second show, Genius Bar, focussed on his time working for Apple, chronicles his attempts to fix his relationship using the same troubleshooting techniques he’d been using to fix iMacs, iPhones and iPods. He is currently writing his third show and preparing to tour the UK.
He lives in London with his full body pillow.
What others say
“Sick of receiving so much spam, Veitch took matters into his own hands and decided to reply to every junk mail he received. An ingenious, enjoyable tale of scamming the scammers.” — The Independent
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