A whole captcha cracking industry running in India!

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August 30, 2008 ||

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If the popularity of Indians working for low wages in IT sector was not enough, we now have the reputation of helping the spam mafia across the world. In a very interesting news covered by ZDNet, India is running world’s largest economy for solving captcha; solving captcha however for me is a very subtle term used by ZDNet. I’d use the term cracking. After all the purpose of solving the captcha is benefiting the wrong guys who’d fill your email box with filthy spam.

The whole industry is being run under the radar of “data processing” and the fascinating fact is that people are breaking captcha at a rate of $2 per 1000 captchas. As an example of one such company ZDNet names decaptcher.com (sorry no hot linking to the bad guys!) which has Indian links to it. We checked the whois information and found it to be registered on a Russian (Moscow) address. Following is what the site has to offer in terms of promises it’s making for breaking captcha:

Using the advertisement in blogs, social networks, etc significantly increases the efficiency of the business. Many services use pictures called CAPTCHAs in order to prevent automated use of these services.
Solve CAPTCHAs with the help of this portal, increase your business efficiency now!

Follow these steps:
1. Register
2. Contact us at admin@decaptcher.com to put money to your account via PayPal and retrieve API
3. Login to check your balance

You pay for correctly recognized CAPTCHAs only

The whole story will give you goose bumps in terms of seeing the kind of professionalism that’s visible in such captcha solving companies. Read the complete story here.