CAPTCHA Data-Entry Scam
Slashdot has a post about another captcha-entering scam similar to Look2Earn, the one I blogged about back in April. This time the scammer is just trying to hire a bunch of "data entry" people through one of the freelancer sites, but the result is the same.
There's so much focus on bot networks and zombie PCs and all sorts of automated ways to scam people, but not many people seem to realise that in the "Get Paid" industry and elsewhere, there are thousands of people who will do the same work the scripts and bots do, and some things that the bots can't do, at relatively minimal costs.
These armies of human click-bots are doing significant amounts of damage with by participating in search engine click fraud, this CAPTCHA stuff, providing misleading information in paid surveys, and any other online earning opportunities that they can find to manipulate.
There's so much focus on bot networks and zombie PCs and all sorts of automated ways to scam people, but not many people seem to realise that in the "Get Paid" industry and elsewhere, there are thousands of people who will do the same work the scripts and bots do, and some things that the bots can't do, at relatively minimal costs.
These armies of human click-bots are doing significant amounts of damage with by participating in search engine click fraud, this CAPTCHA stuff, providing misleading information in paid surveys, and any other online earning opportunities that they can find to manipulate.
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