This is a tongue-in-cheek monologue about what might happen when a snarky techie replies to a spam email. He gives the spammers a run for the money.
NOTE: Some NSFW statements and inbuendo (IMHO)
As outlined on the TED Talk website:
James Veitch: This is what happens when you reply to spam email
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.”