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From viral comedy sensation James Veitch (as seen on TED, Conan, and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon) comes a collection of laugh-out-loud funny exchanges with email scammers.

The Nigerian prince eager to fork over his inheritance, the family friend stranded unexpectedly in Norway, the lonely Russian beauty looking for love . . . they spam our inboxes with their hapless pleas for help, money, and your social security number. In Dot Con, Veitch finally answers the question: what would happen if you replied?

Suspicious emails pop up in our inboxes and our first instinct is to delete unopened. But what if you responded to the deposed princess begging for money in your Gmail? Veitch dives into the underbelly of our absurd email scam culture, playing the scammers at their own game, and these are the surprising, bizarre, and hilarious results.

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Thank you for sharing this, StillStanding. I've added max reps and cannot wait to dive in to read it. I need a good laugh right about now.

I get, on average, 4 to 6 of these spam emails per day...everything from "Your Netflix Account Is Suspended" or "You've Won $65 Billion Lottery."

When I hover my mouse over the sender, I see an email address that is in no way associated with the faked identity supposedly sending me the message. The atrociously poor use of English in the message is another dead giveaway.

Oh...wait! I meant to say I get 6 of these messages, on average, that gets through to me every day. The number of emails that Google automatically identifies as spam actually number in the upper hundreds each week.

While I have been tempted to "play along" with a few of these idiots (as the title of this book seems to suggest), I don't want to engage them in any way. There are some very unhinged people in the world. You never know who's on the other end of a scam attempt (or what hacking skills they may have). To rile them up just for sport could make for more dangerous outcomes than one bargained for.

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