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Spam is done by massive botnets that crawl the web at a rate nearly equal to Google's.
by ryacko 9y ago
Spam is done by massive botnets that crawl the web at a rate nearly equal to Google's.
- AFNobody 9y agoAnd they have their equivalents of Amazon's Mechanical TURK to learn how to bypass security questions. https://2captcha.com/public_statistics https://2captcha.com/public_statistics <- this for example You can find humans willing to work for $0.001/captcha.
- littlestymaar 9y agoI've also read that some torrent or other illegal download website display captchas that are in fact captchas from other websites, to crowdsource the captcha bypass.
- AFNobody 9y agoCorrect. There is a long list of human farming options they employ. They frequently use that one then "pretend" they have workers.