This is what happens when you reply to spam email | James Veitch

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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, months-long exchange with a spammer who offered to cut him in on a hot deal.

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I can't help it, I do reply, it's not often but if i'm in a foul mood
and the sender makes it painfully obvious via bad grammar and
stupid statements and miss-labeling things like our government
offices. I very calmly proceed to point out how obvious their scam
and their stupidity are, notice I said "calmly" I did not claim that
I was "polite" about it :p
My wife said to me one time, " you do realize that your educating them
to be better at that right ? "
After that I stopped having my fun with them :(
Cool Share Jack ;)
 

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I can't help it, I do reply, it's not often but if i'm in a foul mood
and the sender makes it painfully obvious via bad grammar and
stupid statements and miss-labeling things like our government
offices. I very calmly proceed to point out how obvious their scam
and their stupidity are, notice I said "calmly" I did not claim that
I was "polite" about it :p
My wife said to me one time, " you do realize that your educating them
to be better at that right ? "
After that I stopped having my fun with them :(
Cool Share Jack ;)
I've always done same, well most of the time. I like to bash them, no mercy. LOL
 

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