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Sometimes complaint sites are themselves abusive. I've received comments with links to pissedconsumer.com on three or four of my scam-reporting posts. The accounts from which they're submitted vary, but they're all from the same boilerplate:
Hello. I think your blog is great. Recently, I have read a lot about [company I posted about]. The most useful information came from www.pisseconsumer.com.
It's always spelled "pisseconsumer.com" in the plain text, though that site doesn't exist. That is followed by an innocuous-sounding description of the company. If you click through the link, you find lots of plausible-looking complaints about the company.
The first couple of times, I had some doubts; any comment which starts with a compliment that could be used anywhere is likely spam. But the page looked as if it had legitimate information, so I allowed the comment.
This morning I got the third or fourth comment of that kind, with the same opening boilerplate and misspelling. This one, posted by "Shon Bi," was praising Direct Buy and yet providing a link to a page with lots of complaints about the company.
Given that pissedconsumer.com is a comment-spamming operation, it may well be inventing its own complaints about companies as well. Note to "Shon Bi," "Denny," and your other sock puppets: I've gone back and deleted your comments, and any further comments you post won't see the light of day.
See also:
- Pissedconsumer.com: spammers and maybe more (The Spam Diaries)
2 comments:
I thought they'd stop spamming me after I wrote about them on my blog, but they got me again a couple days ago.
Surely you know that spammers don't read the posts they comment on. At best their bots look for keywords like "CBCS" and "Direct Buy" in the posts they spam.
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