Now,spammers outsource to beat security
Youths In India,Bangladesh & China Being Paid To Tackle Online Tests Known As Captchas Faced with stricter internet security measures,some spammers have begun borrowing a page from corporate Americas playbook: they are outsourcing. Sophisticated spammers are paying people in India,Bangladesh,China and other developing countries to tackle the simple tests known as captchas,which ask web users to type in a string of semiobscured characters to prove they are human beings and not spam-generating robots.The going rate for the work ranges from 80 cents to $1.20 for each 1,000 deciphered boxes,according to online exchanges like Freelancer.com,where dozens of such projects are bid [...]
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