The bottom line - is text based CAPTCHA dead? It’s definitely in pain thanks to evil marketers recruiting low-waged Indian data processing workers, who according to some of the statistics obtained, earn over ten times more while solving CAPTCHAs, than through their legitimate data processing jobs.

How serious is the CAPTCHA solving business in India? The following Indian advertisements of their CAPTCHA services clearly speak for themselves - business is good and they are in fact competing for projects :
    * 24/7 support still like. We have 30 pc 90 worker & we have 300 captcha team. Your any captcha project we done quickly. We have high experience captcha worker
    * Sir, We have 10 systems with good typing skill workers. We can easily do 25k per day
    * I have 40 PCs and 55 Persons working in my office for data entry work. As 1 person can do 800 captcha entry per hour. We can deliver you good quantity with quality
    * Hello Sir, I will kindly introduce myself.. This is shivakumar.. we have a team to type capcthas 24/7 and we can type more than 200k captchas per day
    * WE ARE PROFESSIONAL CAPCHA ENTRY OPEATORS AND WE CAN DO EVEN 25000 ENTRIES PER DAY AS MY COMPANY IS A 25 SEATER FIRM SPEALISED IN DATA ENTRY
    * Our Team is very much interested in your project and we could easily handle more than 50,000 captcha entries per day
    * We having more then 10 teams,we are operating 24/7 data entry works and delivering 700k/day captchas daily
    * I have a team of 7 people, willing to do captchas at $2 per 1000 entries. Please consider my bid. We can definitely provide 50K captchas per day
    * I have 40 PCs and 55 Persons working in my office for data entry work. As 1 person can do 800 captcha entry per hour. We can deliver you good quantity with quality
    * My team is equipped to offer the services. 20 person team, T1 business speed internet with an on hand technical staff. We are able to start right away
    * Dear Sir I am an expert in account creation, will provide you the accounts as per your requirements.I ensure the guaranteed satisfaction always. I charge only $40/1000
    * captcha typing teams for 24/7 ready. Rate $1.25 for 1K, up to 100K captchas per day
    * 1$ per 1K of entries, and ready to produce 50 K entries per day. Kindly look forward procedures to provide the chance to us
    * My rate $4.00 per 1k My team can work 24/7. They are jobless now
    * $3 per 1000 image entry, Ready start. 24/7 service like also. We have 30 pc 90 worker & 39 big captcha team so your any target we solve
    * Dear Sir, We have quoted 50 $ per 50000 entries., Kindly look forward procedures to provide a chance to work with you

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