Spammers Using Sweatshops to Beat CAPTCHAs

[Osiris]

Spammers Using Sweatshops to Beat CAPTCHAs

Spammers have started hiring teams of low-wage workers in places like Russia and Southeast Asia to defeat CAPTCHAs. The running rate is about 75-cents per 1,000 CAPTCHAs, but I guess it beats working for Foxconn .

"The beauty of most modern CAPTCHAs is that they simply take Latin characters — so they don't actually need to understand what the words mean — they simply need to be able to look at the symbols and type the appropriate ones on their keyboard," he says.
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[ReikokuKo]

Wow....that is just sad. I kind of figured this was happening when I got increased spam on some forums I manage getting past the CAPTCHA. But, a lot of them don't know English so I would add in my own line on the registration form in addition to the CAPTCHA asking a redundant question. Yeah, they can beat CAPTCHA, but they still don't know English haha.

 

[Kharn]

This is nothing new and also you can get it done for free, they are really moving onto the free porn sites saying want to see more? enter this code....

 

[Yerfdog]

So that's how they got past the CAPTCHA on this other site I used to go on...

 

[joelm3103]

Wow....that is just sad. I kind of figured this was happening when I got increased spam on some forums I manage getting past the CAPTCHA. But, a lot of them don't know English so I would add in my own line on the registration form in addition to the CAPTCHA asking a redundant question. Yeah, they can beat CAPTCHA, but they still don't know English haha.

Agreed with the above but there should be like a various amount of questions to choose from. Been to some websites where the registration asks simple questions such as "What is today" or "2 + 2 = ?", stuff similar to that could work. Might be harder to code though (not sure as I have little knowledge on coding).