Worst Spam Ever?
A while ago, I received the following comment on this post:
i like it.
Bathmate
“Cool,” I thought to myself. “Someone out there liked my post!” And I naively wrote, “Thanks!” in response.
Months later, I stumbled across the comment again, and this time its phrasing struck me as a little odd. So I had a look at the commenter’s profile on Disqus, the site which powers comments here on WYWG.
It is fishy, no? All his comments say basically the same thing: “Its really nice post….” or “Very Nice posting,” and many of them are actually identical.
So, I did a google search on the commenter’s name to see if he’s got any other presence on the web. Whereupon I discovered that Bathmate is in fact not a person, but instead a penis enlargement pump.
This has to be a first. Spam that includes no link to the product being sold, and that relies on the reader to google the spammer’s name as their response to a fairly mundane comment. Surely not the most effective technique for reeling in the punters.
