Spammers Use The Human Touch To Avoid CAPTCHA

Spammers and mass-ticket purchasers have outsourced CAPTCHA solving to teams of low-wage workers in places like Russia and Southeast Asia. Many of them don’t even speak English. They don’t have to, according to Stefan avage.

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 — via redwolf.newsvine.com