CAPTCHA farm

A CAPTCHA farm is a setup where individuals or automated systems are paid to solve CAPTCHA challenges—those tests that verify you’re human, like selecting images or typing distorted text. These farms often employ people (sometimes in low-wage regions) or bots to bypass online security measures, enabling malicious activities like account creation, spamming, or data scraping. They exploit the CAPTCHA system’s purpose of distinguishing humans from automated programs, making it easier for cybercriminals to conduct illegal or unethical operations on websites.