Comments on: India’s growing Captcha-Solving Industry

By: neo

neo — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:13:10 +0000

many scams of this OCR jobs exist on odesk. i was victimized. some indians would act like an “employer”, but the fact is they send you their own account so the unsuspecting “contractors” will do the job for them.

By: adad

adad — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:38:47 +0000

stupid indians..bastards

By: MItesh patel

MItesh patel — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:47:32 +0000

i am very much interested for this work.
$4 per 1000 captcha entry
plz mail me

mitpatel_81@yahoo.in

By: Ketan

Ketan — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:14:14 +0000

We are a Service provider company having BPO infrastructure, we provide back office solutions to our various clients. we do work for captcha data entry.

We are interested in working with you. If you are interested please mail ketan.trs_ahm@yahoo.in, and also the payouts.

we aim at customer’s satisfaction and try to deliver our best services keeping intact performance quality even in a very competitive market.

By: HASHIM SHAH

HASHIM SHAH — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:09:58 +0000

HI SIR HOW R U I HOPE SIR U R GOOD FINE SIR I WANT TO SAY ABOUT ME SIR I AM A PROFESSIONAL TYPIST AND ALSO A MEMBER OF CAPTCHA DATA ENTRY SIR THIS TIME I WORK ON CAPTCHA DATA ENTRY SIR I WANT TO CREAT MY OWN TEAM TO DO WORK ON THIS PROJECT SIR IF U GIVE ME A CHANCE TO DO WORK WITH U SO I AM VERY THANKFUL TO AND GIVE U A GREAT OUT FROM ME.I AM VERY THANKFUL TO IF U GIVE ME REPLY. SIR I AM WAITING FOR UR REPLY.

By: issai

issai — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:59:36 +0000

people make money out of spamming or out of fraud. breaking captchas is an engineering feat. i don’t think the point is breaking captchas.

why is it when there’s an engineering or software problem to be solved, why does it go to india? india has it’s own little silicon valley. there’s a lot of start ups in the silicon valley that are founded by indians. they’re way on top of their game. they’re willing to work better for less pay, and they reap the rewards.

where does this put pinoys in terms of IT and engineering? papahuli pa ba pinoy? i don’t think so, it’s just that we don’t put resources into technology. we do put resources into labor and health care for export. is it bad? are we losing an edge in the tech industry? maybe. but is it that important? maybe.

i have worked with people from india, bangladesh, ukraine, russia and they’re hardcore engineers. they wrote softwre books. saan na ang mga pinoy? baka nasa google. hehe.

By: calvin

calvin — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:38:18 +0000

who would want to have a job like that. $4 per 1000 solved? is there really money to be made with that? overhead and salary expense? let the indians have it.

By: monty

monty — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:33:31 +0000

@WEBMASTER

Here’s something to help you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha

By: WEBMASTER

WEBMASTER — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:39:22 +0000

Honestly I dont get it…. What is it for anyway? does it have to do with internet marketing?

http://www.corel-lifestyle.blogspot.com/

By: lito

lito — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:22:40 +0000

It’s similar to hacking isn’t it?

By: home business

home business — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:18:07 +0000

Solving captcha is like helping people break in on a locked vault.

By: marhgil

marhgil — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:04:49 +0000

so, that’s the reason I’m getting spam comments on my blog despite having a CAPTCHA?!

By: Bhe

Bhe — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:54:27 +0000

I guess until this day it is still very difficult to design a computer system that automatically solves captcha. Image processing do require lots and lots of CPU power just to solve Captcha.

By: monty

monty — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:37:50 +0000

Forgive me if I assumed inccorectly, but isn’t solving CAPTCHAs basically for circumventing the anti-spamming measures of websites? That’s why websites have CAPTCHAs — it prevents automated submissions of possible bots that mine and spam e-mail addresses.

I, for one, can’t be excited if we drum up that kind of business here. We’d be associating our country with the ugly practice of spamming.

But I still could be wrong in my assumptions that that’s what the CAPTCHAs is for.

Read the talkback in the ZDNet article. There’s a discussion there about that.

By: USTelecomGuy

USTelecomGuy — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:26:46 +0000

Let the Indian BPO “industry” take 100% market share of this line of business, and let the Philippine BPO sector prosper by continuing to do legitimate and professional work. ‘CAPTCHA farming’ exists only to mine e-mail, IM, and other user data for illegitimate purposes. The Philippines should not get dragged into this type of business — a business that only feeds crime on the web.

By: BrianB

BrianB — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:50:42 +0000

This work can ruin your brain. But aren’t there a lot of out-of-work people who can type or spell here in the PI? Guess not.

By: L.A

L.A — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:20:24 +0000

Errr so they break CAPTCHAs to make spam accounts on MySpace, GMail, Yahoo! Mail, YouTube, Facebook and even ordinary forums, message boards, blogs and comment systems?

By: orgl

orgl — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:34:24 +0000

I’ve recently tried working with captcha entry job with $0.80 per 1000 captcha, my feedback? it’s the most bullshit job i’ve ever tried.

By: Andre Marcelo-Tanner

Andre Marcelo-Tanner — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:10:17 +0000

for spam purposes or for OCR?

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By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:37:08 +0000

I just can’t believe a job like this existed. Breaking CAPTCHAs? I still don’t understand what they really do and what is it for?

By: Kinnison

Kinnison — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:02:23 +0000

That’s kinda repetitive and boring but oh well, the things people would do for money.