(vIndianz April 28 2010): Spammers based in the United States are on the hunt for job seekers to outsource their work to in India, Bangladesh, China and other developing countries.
The task would be to tackle the simple tests known as captchas, which ask web users to type in a string of semi-obscure characters to prove they are humans and not a spam-generating robot.
A Silicon India report said these spammers are paying 80 cents (Rs 35.43) to $1.20 (Rs 53.14) per 1,000 deciphered boxes on online exchanges such as Freelancer.com, where dozens of such projects are bid on every week.
The report quoted Luis von Ahn, a Carn egie Mellon computer science professor who was a pioneer in developing captchas, as saying that thousands of people in developing countries are solving these puzzles for pay. Asians are top on list. However, tech majors such as Google say that they do not worry a lot about people being paid to decode captchas because they are one of several tools that websites use to secure themselves, the report added.
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