Hey Hey,

Check out RSnake's post on the subject from a while back... People are indeed being paid to sit and solve CAPTCHAS

http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070427/so...chas-for-cash/

The economics are as follows: 300-500 CAPTCHAs per person per hour. The clients pay between $9-15 per 1000 CAPTCHAs solved. The team works around 12 hours a day per person. That means they can solve somewhere around 4800 CAPTCHAs per day per person, and depending on how hard the CAPTCHAs are that can run you around $50 per day per person (his estimate). The reason it’s not higher is because they take breaks, and fail sometimes.