Spammers are hiring firms to defeat CAPTCHA's


	Spammers are hiring firms to defeat CAPTCHA's

dmtherob

8-26-2008 7:21 PM

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spam, spammer, captchas, security, fraud

dmtherob says:

You send the firm the CAPTCHA's and a real person solves it and send it back to the customer. Apparently the employee solving the puzzle only gets paid if the puzzle is:

Solved correctly
Solved within 60 seconds (even though the rule is under 20 seconds)

The firm charges $1 for every 1,000 CAPTCHA's that you send. They also sell Gmail and Yahoo mail accounts in bulk

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