Tuesday, October 30, 2007

CAPTCHA Images - How The Spammers Can Get Through It With Your Help

There is a new way on how the spammers can make you spam for them. Even though the target site is using CAPTCHA, the spammers can get through it with your help.

You might receive a message from a hot woman that willl ask you to enter CAPTCHA images numbers and she will strip for you after you've done it. Without you knowing, the CAPTCHA images are actually from the websites that the spammers want to attack.

Therefore, by entering the CAPTCHA images numbers and letters, you've helped the spammers to create a massive amount of email accounts from websites such as Yahoo!. Imagine if there are 1000 people are entering the numbers at the same time, the spammers can create 1000 email accounts by doing nothing!

This is just an example, they (spammers) might use it for other reasons. So, be careful if you received messages from unknown people.

I read this from PandaLabs. Here's the link
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/archive/A-new-way-of-social-engineering.aspx

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