Dot Con: The Art of Scamming a Scammer

Written by James Veitch

Narrated by James Veitch and Naomi Petersen

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hachette Audio
• Release date: Jun 2, 2020
• ISBN: 9781549156557

Reviews for Dot Con

[mrdee0 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Hilarious but I read it in an hour. A really short book but okay for an hours worth of laughter.

[lexilewords · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Why yes, yes this is the kind of humor I like.

I'm one of those folks who when scammers call I basically just mess around with them for the fun of it.

There's a reason we are on the do not call list.

Anyho w found Veitch and his book after seeing his Ted Talk and it definitely brightened my day each time I picked it up. I read it over the cours of a few days, usually whenever I felt stressed and it consistently made me smile or cackle.

By the way Solomon or Henry or Elena, feel free to email me I'd love to chat about what great opportunities you offered James. I promise to not promise that I'm promising to double cross my fingers I'm a legit person wanting some secret money transferred to me.

[smichaelwilson · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A collection of transcripts in which comedian James Veitch responds to email scams and generally messes around with them until they give up. If you've seen him perform live and talk through some of these same email exchanges, reading them might feel a bit dry without his boyishly enthusiastic delivery, but this is still a fun, casual read.

[kgramer-1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

A quick and funny read. Who hasn't wanted to reply to a scammer and waste their time like they're trying to waste yours? It got a little repetitive, but was such a fast read.