Captcha Stripping for fun and....profit?

Tuesday, October 30. 2007

Captcha Stripping for fun and....profit?

We had noticed the rise in spam comments on our blog, even with Captcha's on, and wondered about what made people waste the time to go through this just to spam us - after all we are not exactly A List.

Now we know....according to the BBC the horny hands of toil doing this work are...well, horny:

Spammers have created a Windows game which shows a woman in a state of undress when people correctly type in text shown in an accompanying image.

The scrambled text images come from sites which use them to stop computers automatically signing up for accounts that can be put to illegal use.

By getting people to type in the text the spammers can take over the accounts and use them to send junk mail.

So now we know......

Posted by Alan Patrick in Blogging & Blogs at 23:25 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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