On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Esben Stien<[email protected]> wrote:
> Angela <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> FancyCaptchas do not help - they're solving these too.
>
> You mean a bot is able to bypass your FancyCaptchas?.

Yes, or a human is doing them. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA#Circumvention

I've seen these "180 buy Viagra"-type accounts on wikis with math
captchas, fancy captchas, and re-captcha. And of course on wikis that
aren't using the ConfirmEdit extension.

Angela

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