Joe Emenaker wrote to jdow: > jdow wrote: > > > So what you should do is take any such email that comes in to an > > otherwise unknown address on your system and reply to it with a > > random letters password to poison the technique. > > This occurred to me back when I first heard that they were doing it... > but I figured that they were checking the captcha's in real time.
>From my understanding, the email would probably just be a link to a free porn site, with some enticing copy. (Free porn probably isn't a tough sell). The site, in "setting up your free account" or somesuch, would (behind the scenes) open the connection to Hotmail or Yahoo, and get to the point of the CAPTCHA, which it would then embed in the page their unsuspecting free porn addict sees as part of the sign-up process. The site takes the response of the porn user, and sends it back to Hotmail or Yahoo, so they can create their account. It's real-time, and rather effective. Actually, it sounds like something I might come up with, if my hat were more than a few shades darker. :-) - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com 901-1st Avenue North - Saskatoon, SK - S7K 1Y4 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-244-7037 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America
