Procure Dot Con Documented By James Veitch Issued As Publication

when I realised that James Veitch has a book,



I was obsessed with his videos for years, it always fascinated me how far he can go with these scammers, and they still continue.


Most of the stories were previously told by James in one of his videos however, it did have more details here in the book.
But probably my favourite part of his videos is how he delivers them which of course you cannot have in the book except when I was reading the stories with his voice in my head.


Btw, why is it always Western Union

Anyway, I loved it! Had a few good laughs.
I will definitely reread several of these, The Snailfarm and the novel are always my favourites, Plus Mary Gary, China Jewelry Corp and Unsubscribing,
And if you are reading this and you do not know who James Veitch, then please, find his videos on Youtube.
James Veitch is a rapist, Do not support him. Hilarious, very light and fun reading, : This book was an absolute crackup, I love how creative James Veitch is, and just how dumb some scammers can be,



I watched a Ted Talk by James Veitch, and he seems like a very interesting dude.
I REALLY want to see what this book contains, 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.
While some of the email exchanges were hilarious, others just felt rather repetitive, It's a great concept, I just feel as though it could have been collected better, I read this, because I got a lot of belly laughs from the author's TED talks, The book was funny, but it was sort of like hearing/reading variations of

the same joke over and over.
The other thing was it made the talk look like a conglomeration of several episodes, which felt like deceit to me.
If you're like me, you delete spam emails with one swift click, afraid to interact further than that in fear of downloading some evil attachment.
James Veitch, however, has no such fear, Not only does he respond and play the part of an innocent victim, but he is damn hilarious, cheeky, and awesome while doing it.


Most of these emails start out the same way: you've won/you've been left/we have found some outrageously large sum of money, but you have to wire a "processing fee" of up to a few thousand to get the millions.
James always manages to throw the scammer for a loop, It's hard to explain. Veitch has done some TED talks where he goes through the emails check out sitelinkthis particularly hilarious one with one of the best interactions in the book.


Look, I know it may be silly to give this book five, but frankly, it made me stay up untilam with a serious case of the giggles.
I could not stop laughing with every new story, and I don't even remember the last time a book made me do that.
It's a very fast read I finished it in about a day, If you're looking for some lighthearted, fun reading, look no further, Go pick this up. Thank you to Hachette for the ARC! I had seen James Veitchs TED talk videos before and found them really entertaining so I decided to pick this up! If youve seen his videos youll notice similar stories but some I hadnt heard before.
I liked reading this but I think hearing James tell it himself was a more enjoyable format for these stories.
Literally the BEST coffee table or bathroom book ever! I found myself laughing unabashedly out loud,

James is so freaking clever, The obscene stories he concocts to tool with all the internet trolls are hilarious, The toaster one, holy crap!!!

Seriously, just read it, And then share it. It will brighten up someones day,

I have already passed it along to my motherinlaw andfriends, Wow, what a fantastic read, I laughed so much people were giving me the side eye, I saw this book at the library and picked it up after I recognized the author from a 'Ted Talks' video sitelink
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I became obsessed with James Veitch a while ago while I was on a TED Talk binge and came across the grabbily titled, sitelink This is what happens when you reply to spam email.
I enjoyed it so much that I ended up Googling him to see if there was any more where that come from and landed on the sitelinkScamalot series he did with Mashable.
You can imagine my delight, then, when I managed to finagle a copy of his book, DOT CON, which further chronicles his adventures in tormenting scammers by wasting their time.




I think part of why I like James Veitch so much is that he's not malicious or mean.
He doesn't insult the scammers he corresponds with or yell at them, He actually reminds me a lot of another "troll" I like, Ken M, whose sense of humor is selfdescribed as "bringing a banana to a gun fight" per his interview with Vox.
In his correspondence with these scammers, James deflects their requests or demands for personal data with zany good humor, playing the blithe idiot while never outright saying no, and it's absolutely hilarious when they try to pander to him some of them go to great lengths to win his credit card info!.




If you're a Veitch fan already most of the content in this book probably isn't going to be new to you.
I recognized most of the emails from his Scamalot series and only saw a couple new ones.
I didn't mind seeing them again though especially the Giant Gummy Lizard one, which is one of the funniest things I've ever seen on the internet.
However, if you're new to James Veitch's shenanigans, you should definitely read this book as it's honestly pretty pure and frankly hilarious.
In his TED Talk, he said that he doesn't feel bad about messing with these guys or gals because every minute they spend with him is a minute they don't spend preying on the vulnerable, and I think that's true.




And if you don't want to read the book, well we'll always have Tuscany!



Thanks to Netgalley/the publisher for the review copy!



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On a disturbingly regular basis there comes a news story of people being swindled out of their savings by con artists who appear so legitimate that vulnerable people are susceptible to such antics.
It leaves a bad taste in the mouth to see people sobbing on those news reports because they have been conned and are left with nothing.
It causes such angry responses you feel like you want to reach right through the computer screen and wring the scammer's necks for the devastation they wreak on innocent lives.
But James Veitch has given rise to a much better form of revenge mess with the scammers, Take them on on their own games and try to cause misery for them that would cause misery on others.
And from this standpoint, in which Veitch sagely reminds us, we are only engaging in talking with them and wasting their time, we are shown the fun and games that can be had when you enter into conversations with the scammers, and under the expert hands of Veitch, the results are hilarious.


In Dot Con Veitch shares with us twentyone stories of when he has taken the scammers on and messed with them as badly as they mess with defenceless people.
With boring monotony, the scam starts similarly with the scammers spinning a web of lies to try and induce a person to believe that someone is stranded overseas with no money for example, or that a rich person has died and left them a fortune, and in all situations, the scammer attempts to extort money out of the recipient of the email by encouraging people to send them money via Western Union or the like.

Part of the charm of the book is that it is written complete with email addresses and the conversations, making this an extremely fast book to read.
The ability Veitch has to string a scammer along in a conversation that can last days is really quite amazing, one might even say he has a gift for such behaviour! He certainly gives a master class to any person who feels the urge to follow in his footsteps and copy his methods in dealing with the lowlifes that execute these scams, and more power to them I say.


If you want a wicked hour or so, then this is the book for you, .