Softwise: Financial Services Software for Assholes.
Normally comment spam amuses me. I’m shocked at the stupidity of some of them… and can’t believe that people would fall for their ruse and approve of them. Sure, I am a brilliant blogger (ha) and all… but if you praise me for no reason with a name like “Toilet Fixtures”… well, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t authentic praise. As my last post was about.
But this company… Softwise Online… went too far. About a year ago, my Grandma passed away. I shared my thoughts and feelings of it in a blog post. So, this asshole found my post and tried to get a comment approved to the post about my Grandma’s death.
They used the name “payday advance online”, provided a link to their scummy site, and posted this comment: “This is such sad news. I am so sorry for your loss. I hope you know it hurts now, and it will get better. I am sorry, it is hard and sad.”
I doubt a spam bot is sophisticated enough to form such a relevant comment. And the IP it came from was not from some SEO consultant or a botnet… it came from Softwise Online’s pool of IP’s.
So there you go Softwise Online, you wanted exposure on my blog, you now have exposure on my blog.