tiddy, there is this program that claims that they can bypass CAPTCHA checks. The address is
http://www.captchakiller.com/ though I don't know how well it works, but it claims that it's meant to help blind people.
I read that some sites may pay people to solve CAPTCHAs and also that there would be free porn sites where you have to pass a CAPTCHA in order to see the pics, but that it would in fact forward a check from Yahoo or Hotmail and when you submit the right answer, they use it to create a spamming account. I think that one way of avoiding this would be including the name of the site in the CAPTCHA and maybe the text that if you see this on some other site than the one mentioned in the picture then you are being abused by spammers. Machines cannot read images if the letters are overlapping or if there is noise, so often people are making CAPTCHAs too hard to read even for real people when in fact they are not cracked by a program, they are cracked by idle people looking for free porn. Just think about it, you don't even have to pay the models if you kidnap them from some poor country. You take some pictures, put them up on a website, request a CAPTCHA for each image, and there may be several customers requesting the same pictures so you can use them several times. Granted that hosting costs money but... if they are able to send loads of spam from trusted hosts, they are likely to make some money with it.
