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Antispam “KeyCAPTCHA is Under Attack” Forum Spam as an Example of “Best PR is Black PR” Technique

September 23, 2011 FAQer 3 comments

KeyCAPTCHA Profiteers Protect Us from Amateur Spammers (Credit to stavros.messinis.com)

KeyCAPTCHA Professional Profiteering Spammers Protect Us from Amateur Spammers (Credit to stavros.messinis.com)

.“Life is not about waiting
for the storm to pass,
it’s about learning
to dance in the rain”
~Unknown Author
(sometimes attributed to
Viviane Greene)

KeyCAPTCHA.com antispam service created viral publicity of its service as absolutely free, having involved in this campaign many others unaware.

KeyCAPTCHA Under Money Rain Attack (Credit to depositphotos.com)

KeyCAPTCHA.com creators being professional spammers and blackhat profiteers routinely use Email and forum spam (See also: “Antispam KeyCAPTCHA.com Spam“) , spinning software, content farms to fill internet with spam promoting its antispam KeyCAPTCHA service.

One of the latest examples devoted to slandering me personally was botted by hundreds identical texts over the internet

[1], [1a],
[1b],
[1c],
[ 2 ]

what technically and legally constitutes as forum spam

Here are my answers to it:

“The person spreading a slander and a lie regarding the KeyCAPTCHA Service uses different nicknames on different web resources” [1-2]

My answer:

I have to use multiple accounts since they were deleted by the requests of KeyCAPTCHA.com without any check of facts.

By the way, most was created due to instructions of ex-employer KeyCAPTCHA.com, before the date of my dismissal (May, 2011) and if it insists, I can expose them publicly.

Please read my “KeyCAPTCHA, I’m a Liar – Pants on Fire – Was I Good or Bad?”

I do not post in the same site under different nicknames and accounts as it is routinely being done by KeyCAPTCHA.com continuing to spam forums under multiple nicknames (usernames, accounts) in the same topic.
For example, KeyCAPTCHA account and its clones (babnicks, Drew_007) were banned in http://forum.searchengines.ru for aggressive spamming, off-topic, flame (personal insulting of its concurrent business in Russia) in the same topic!

I do publish only part of truth which is is easily available for check in public access on the internet!

“You can find it out by googling “KeyCAPTCHA is under attack” (quoted)” [1-2]

My answer:
Well, you can’t find all because exact copies of the same text are blacklisted by search engines but I give the partial (that I could find) list of references (URLs) below [1].

KeyCAPTCHA.com:
“This person extorted money from our employee. And he had been caught by the police when he was taking the money” [1-2]

My answer:
I could not extort money from KeyCAPTCHA’s employee because I was informed by this “employer”, already after my dismissal that company that hired me (I am in Russia), was not registered legal company having changed its previous alleged locations (now it is US-based Mersane) and legally could not have employees

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[1] Some of the links to “KeyCAPTCHA under attack” publications (posts, comments, etc.):

[1a] In English only

http://www.cbbqa.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=14775&view=findpost&p=73144

etc.

[1b] Ibid in English + in Russian (before the same in English)

[1c]
Ibid, In Russian:

[1d]
Ibid, deleted by webmasters as spam:

[2] The botted by KeyCAPTCHA.com text, discussed in this post:

Dear Visitors,

The person spreading a slander and a lie regarding the KeyCAPTCHA Service uses different nicknames on different web resources.
He thinks up his new slander and lie from time to time.

You can find it out by googling “KeyCAPTCHA is under attack” (quoted).

======= Ooops, cut in order to avoid creating large chunk of duplicated content

Antispam KeyCAPTCHA.com Email Spam

KeyCAPTCHA Scam – How to Make Spam Unavoidable

September 9, 2011 FAQer Leave a comment

First Free (KeyCAPTCHA Plugin Description)

It is like in any scam scheme: first, a victim is enticed by an irresistible offer of absolutely free of charge novel (“first”, “innovative”, “sexy”. “unique”, etc.) miracle or easy way to earn money (including interesting job offer like it was for me by KeyCAPTCHA.com). Then you are trapped by a sneaky change in conditions of bargain (employment)… Accordingly, first, KeyCAPTCHA.com filled the internet with ads of its first absolutely free of charge (“unique”, “novel”, “innovative”, “unbreakable”) anti-spam miracle. It was not only without any advertising but even buyers of commercial fee-based KeyCAPTCHA service were initially prohibited to create CAPTCHAs with any advertising. Then, in the beginning of August, 2011, after bloggers started to write about and webmasters with sysadmins to advise each other this miracle en masse, KeyCAPTCHA.com changed its ToS convering KeyCAPTCHA from antispam captcha into spam platform.

KeyCAPTCHA Plugin Contribution description in WordPress.org

That is, a webmaster that installed it, cannot avoid spam served through installed KeyCAPTCHA plug-in from KeyCAPTCHA.com’s servers, except “agreeing” to buy “Personalized CAPTCHA” service or uninstalling KeyCAPTCHA plugin.Well, the end-user (a visitor) of a protected web resource, cannot just close your eyes and skip it like with any other spam. KeyCAPTCHA usually blocks access to webresource, like registering for forum, commenting blog article, posting, downloading a file, resetting a forgotten password, etc.

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History:

August 9, 2011 -Created and published
Sept 15, 2011 – Changed the published date to Sept 09, 2011 in order to cjange the order of posts presentations

KeyCAPTCHA.com Insists That I’ve NEVER Worked in KeyCAPTCHA Team Having Published Before That I Had

September 3, 2011 FAQer Leave a comment

The higher the KeyCAPTCHA goes, the more it shows his tail

Initially. KeyCAPTCHA.com Team published in internet dozens of slandering and blackening me forum posts, blog comments, that while working in keycaptcha.com I was caught for extortion of money, which KeyCAPTCHA Team managed to push removal of all from internet. See how and in my previous article

For example, in this discussion in ipbskins.ru, KeyCAPTCHA Team insists that I have never ever worked in KeyCAPTCHA.com:

“1. Nedodurok, Вы НИКОГДА НЕ РАБОТАЛИ в нашей организации.

2. В доменном имени невозможно работать

"Вы НИКОГДА у нас НЕ РАБОТАЛИ. По поводу "преступников":
мы проконсультируемся с нашими юристами о возможности приобщения так сказать"

While, here is the Google webcache of a topic in antichat.ru before removal of the end of discussion, where KeyCAPTCHA’s CEO tells the opposite :

[Page 1]

[Page 2] or the same from anonymizer(if the previous link failed)
“И вообще Геннадий, …

Этого человека я лично выгнал из команды KeyCAPTCHA,
так как он от имени сервиса начал писать всякую фигню на форума..."

"Ну вобщем я искренне надеюсь что следующие годика 3-4 Вы проведете рубя лес и шья варюжки"

[Page 3] – available as saved copy only, can Email on request

Note, how KeyCAPTCHA.com representative, by his completely unprovoked personal insults, had converted purely technical discussion into a flame and off-topic having requested thereafter to remove it

In the article “KeyCAPTCHA – 2” tells that KeyCAPTCHA’s support (from Email: support@keycaptcha.com) in response to request about information in my blog explains that while working in KeyCAPTCHA.com, I was caught extorting money from my colleague (by what?) ed-handed by police.

The true story was completely opposite. KeyCAPTCHA.com CEO threatened me to concoct criminal case against me because I reminded him his promise to sign with me the working contract.

Meanwhile, I want to remind that by Russian Labor Legislation, in case of absence of written work contract, the contract is verbal and employment is established by the fact of work itself and not by signing or not agreements.

Dismissal in “Good Will” a-la-KeyCAPTCHA

August 2, 2011 FAQer Leave a comment

“Let’s part in good will” a la-KeyCAPTCHA, it is when you offered 11,500 rubles of dismissal payment having 43,000 rubles of unpaid salary (if to forget about few times bigger severance pack) and when you refuse such a generous offer, you are repeatedly threatened by criminal cases for theft in keycaptcha.com office, physical violence, etc.

Then, KeyCAPTCHA.com “company” offers you even more, than one can expect, to compensate your unfair treatment and you get caught red-handed by police called by your “employer” during receiving this payout money. It also happens that the KeyCAPTCHA.com “company” which hired you, has never legally existed (except on keycaptcha.com website) and you extorted money (but really rejected them few times) from persons that rented a business offce for keycaptcha.com activities on the internet.

So, instead of employment, payments of your work or seeking new employment after dismissal, you are forced to study criminal laws and prepare for criminal litigation with your former “employer”.

But what was the point?
I am trapped and have no ethical, moral or psychic restrictions to protect me against unfair accusations and forced to go until the end and by all means

KeyCAPTCHA, I’m a Liar – Pants on Fire – Was I Good or Bad?

July 23, 2011 FAQer Leave a comment

I am 48, Cybernetics Engineer, the last 14 years worked as IT commercial coder. Well, I always coded but before IT it was R&D – science and applied maths, AI, numerical and analytical calculations, that stuff.

I should confess that I have never blogged or tweeted before the beginning of this year2011. InDecember, 2011, I was “employed” by Joint Stock ITNP (keycaptcha.com,) “company”, I still do not know how to title it, as Software Developer in Test and Supporter. The latter was supposed to be minor duty since there was very little amount of users as well as problems.

Since I was initially quite excited by the technical and “business” perspectives. оn my own initiative and against the employer’s opinion that it was a wate of time, I created twitter account KeyCAPTCHA and started to tweet. The results were astonishing – in a week, the rate of visitors of keycaptcha.com web site increased thrice!

Later, after I was fired, my employer (KeyCAPTCHA.com) started to insist that:

I had never been working for KeyCAPTCHA.com (in order to avoid paying me my salary),
I stole KeyCAPTCHA twitter account toextort money which was caught devolved with the help by police

Why were such ridiculous claims that someone can distort 10,000 USD by stealing someone’s twitter account?

Look at statistics of keycaptcha.com daily visitor rates (the figure temporarily removed, I’ll send privately it on request):

January 23, 2011 – I renamed my private(personal) twitter account into @KeyCAPTCHA (KeyCAPTCHA Team) and started to promote through KeyCAPTCHA plugins to KeyCAPTCHA service;
05/03/2011 – I was dismissed
05/06/2011 – the visiting of KeyCAPTCHA.com started to drop, since my former employer (“company” KeyCAPTCHA.com) had shot itself in its foot by contesting the ownership of KeyCAPTCHA twitter account which was thereafter suspended!

BTW, the increase stopped because I had been categorically prohibited to post anything except official news duplicating them from company’s “What’s new” section of website. I also was prohibited to blog about KeyCAPTCHA.

One of the main and the only proof of KeyCAPTCHA.com that I am a liar and crook was that I blogged (posted articles) under multiple accounts in http://scam.com :

“He has (had) a few accounts on scam.com but the owner of these accounts is the same person.

We want to thank the moderators of scam.com. They have blocked all his accounts.

Here are his banned accounts:

http://scam.com/member.php?u=182837
http://scam.com/member.php?u=182740
http://scam.com/member.php?u=182624

Best regards,
KeyCAPTCHA Team”

This, posting from multiple accounts or commenting blogs under multiple nicknames, was what I was taught and instructed to do for promoting discussions on KeyCAPTCHA while I was working in KeyCAPTCHA Team .
It is what all members of KeyCAPTCHA Team regularly did before my coming to KeyCAPTCHA.com and continue doing after my leaving it.

For example, this blog article “Плагин KeyCAPTCHA” has a few comments on July 5, 2011, under multiple nicknames (KeyCAPTCHA and Bob) by the same person of KeyCAPTCHA Team presenting itself both as KeyCAPTCHA Team member (under KeyCAPTCHA nickname) and as a “passer-by” fan of KeyCAPTCHA reading all my publications (under Bob nickname). Let me remind that I was fire in May, 2011

It is now common practice when companies and state governments order and pay for marketing campaigns, so called astroturfing, use “sock puppets” (multiple false online personalities) in social media and even use the software for its automatization .

Another common practice is that most social media accounts openly advertise and promote its parallel accounts from the same person. For example, in Twitter:

@yochum‘s bio tells:
“Follow my technology consultancy business tweets @Plexpod“
@GyanSinghSEO’s bio:
” Web Analyst, Internet Marketing.Follow me on: @seo_gyansingh @seoexpert2india“
@CyberWar:
“Richard Stiennon, security industryanalyst reporting on cyber defence and author of Surviving Cyberwar . Also follow me at @stiennon
etc.

While I can understand why accounts being banned and blogs deleted by SCAM.com, I cannot agree that blogs are being deleted without any previous warning and giving the chance to comply with rules because the scam.com’s rules shown during registration do not tell anything about prohibiting multiple accounts for blogging.

Is it also common practice that webresources do not have any rules or intentionally have rules that impossible to comprehend and/or follow? promoting the situation that nobody cares to read or comply with them ?

So, is posting from multiple accounts a fraud or common de-facto practice on the internet?
Or, is it both?

Is it contagious?

Should I stop lying or perfect me in this?
What do you think?

Gennady
former KeyCAPTCHA.com non-employee

What Is the “first” in KeyCAPTCHA and Why to Have it Externally, i.e. Out of Control?

July 23, 2011 FAQer Leave a comment

While working in keycaptcha.com, I tried, always in vain (i.e. fruitlessly), to convince changing its main (as first phrase or the title) (anti)marketing phrase in many KeyCAPTCHA.com’s marketing articles, including in KeyCAPTCHA.com website “What is KeyCAPTCHA” description:

KeyCAPTCHA is the first free service providing a powerful anti-spam website protection through a new generation interactive CAPTCHA.

to be less self-debunking and more clear.

Warning This KeyCAPTCHA.com Has No Brain Use Your Own! Credit to Sins2ALL.com

ALERT: This KeyCAPTCHA Has No Brain (Starts-Stops Automatically) Use Your Own! Credit to Sins2ALL.com

The word “interactive” is really synonym to “intrusive for a visitor”, in contrast to non-intrusive anti-spam solutions like filtering, honey-traps (honey-pots), etc. Except its anti-marketing (i.e. negative) nature, it does not convey any information since in reality KeyCAPTCHA should have been more specifically described as “DRAG’N’DROP” and/or “not requiring text typing” (non-Texting?) instead of vague and generic “interactive”. All visible (presented) to a visitor CAPTCHAs are really interactive in that they require user’s interactions like typing, drag’n’drop-ping, clicking, etc.

The word “free” means in reality, for external service, like KeyCAPTCHA.com, “un-paid by a user”.
KeyCAPTCHA.com external service internals are not free for scrutiny (or reuse) like open sourced products

All known to me anti-spam services are either free of charge or provide free of charge options/versions in parallel to fee-based service. The latter is in no way different from keycaptcha.com service having both fee-based and free of charge options of its service.

Since it is ridiculous to tout an anti-spam service as “first free” , let me guess, that it is a simple way to assure that users of KeyCAPTCHA did not read about and do not care what they have installed

The idea of non-texting captcha was researched before KeyCAPTCHA (introduced in 2010) a lot, for example:

Google’s rotCAPTCHA project in 2009,
Microsoft’s ASIRRA project in 2007,
Carnegie-Mellon School of Computer Scince’s PIX project in 2000,
ALIPR in 2006
etc.

There are dozens open-source projects offering CAPTCHs based on idea of choosing/clicking an image, for example:

KittenAuth
3D Captcha
IMAGINATION: Image-based Authentication (based on ALIPR, 2006)
etc

as well as DRAG’N’DROP CAPTCHAs, for example:

AJAX FANCY CAPTCHA
etc.

that, IMO, avoid the main point of vulnerability existing in KeyCAPTCHA – that it is external centralized proprietary service out of control of webresource owner who installs it.

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KeyCAPTCHA.com Initiated Criminal Investigation against Itself

July 17, 2011 FAQer Leave a comment

KeyCAPTCHA вызвала милицейских или полиционеров?

KeyCAPTCHA Team published a few posts insisting that I had never worked in KeyCAPTCHA Team.

I have copies of dozens of KeyCAPTCHA’s posts backuped from:

telling the opposite, all deleted later at the request of KeyCAPTCHA Team which I can Email on request of anybody interested in.

The only posts by KeyCAPTCHA Team confirming that I was dismissed from company and still remained undeleted are in http://forum.antichat.ru :

in the latter explaining the reasons of my dismissal and insisting, again with its usual lies, that I was full paid out (I was not).
Thanks to the administration of antichat.ru that it did not follow other resources and did not remove these posts at the later request of KeyCAPTCHA.com!

The essence of conflict is that KeyCAPTCHA.com Team considers that as soon as it avoided its promise to formalize the written working contract with me, I was not hired and I was not employee and there is no need to pay either salary (for the last 2 months) nor dismissal fees according to Russian Federation Labor (or Employment) Law.

According to Russian Federation Labor Legislation, I am employee under protection of this law as soon as I started to work under conditions and verbal agreements of employment like, in my case:

I passed agreed 2-month probation period (Dec, 2010 – Jan, 2011),
routinely worked in office fulfilling employer’s instructions

which qualify me as employee and my working relations as employment under protection of Employment Law.

There are dozens of witnesses of my employment and thousands proves.

KeyCAPTCHA.com filed the LawSuit qualifying my inquiries about my salary and dismissal fees payout as extortion. initiating criminal investigation against me wanting to incarcerate me (for my inquiries of payout of my work) up to 7 years. Cf.. for example, KeyCAPTCHA.com’s:

Tweet “Stop your lie. Your way can just aggravate your situation. See you in court”
post telling “я искренне надеюсь что следующие годика 3-4 Вы проведете рубя лес и шья варюжки” (translating from Russian: “I honestly hope you pass next 3-4 year incarcerated”
etc.

There Should Be A Special Prison For Stupid Staff from KeyCAPTCHA.com

By this, i.e. initiating police investigation, keycaptcha.com has put itself on its own initiative under criminal investigation of its illegal business (economic) activities.

I am looking forward for the court being sure in victory of justice, common sense and law!

Gennady
former employee of KeyCAPTCHA.com company

Why Twitter Supports Criminals?

July 16, 2011 FAQer Leave a comment

Many times I reported to twitter support (opened a few tickets) that a dozen of KeyCAPTCHA.com Team’s tweets from stolen from me @KeyCAPTCHA twitter account are lies and some of them are simply crimes:

The tweet “This person stole our twitter account @KeyCAPTCHA. And he started to extort money from our company” is lie

I did not and could not ever steal my own @KeyCAPTCHA account.
See my article: “Who Stole @KeyCAPTCHA Twitter Account?”
Update:
Since the cited Tweet was deleted here is its cache

The tweet “When he started his threats we reported to the police immediately. The police helped us to get our twitter account back” is lie

Dec. 11, 2010 – I was hired by keycaptcha.com
Jan 21, 2011 – created @KeyCAPTCHA on under name @Coulombusser from my private GMail account. See also How I Stole KeyCAPTCHA Twitter Account
May, 2011 – dismissed (though, since I was not paid, it is quite probable that I am still employed),
May, 30, 2011 – reported by keycaptcha.com to police for alleged extortion
June 3, 2011 – caught by police for extortion with proposed and paid by my former employer keycaptcha.com money

When did I steal my Twitter account and How could I possibly extort money by stealing any Twitter account?

The Tweet of “He is under recognizance not to leave now” is crime.

I am not and was never in my life under any recognizance oreven informed about opening criminal case against me until now (Updated on August 11, 2011). Although, By law, it should have been done in maximum 10 days

The Tweet “The police are investigating it (all his other illegal actions (extortion of money, his threats and publishing slander)) now” is crime.

Until the end of investigation, the publishing of such “conclusions” is the crime under Russian and international laws.

The Tweet “Stop your lie. Your way can just aggravate your situation. See you in court” is intimidating threat publication of which is legally qualified as crime.

etc.

Instead of returning stolen from me @KeyCAPTCHA twitter account or or suspending it for reported by me abuses, twitter support permanently suspended (i.e. deleted) my own (another) private account from which I reported (opened tickets) or tried to reply to such abuses and lies!

Except that I do not understand why Twitter obviously supports criminal activities, I do not understand why I am, as the author of my tweets, rejected the right at least to make copies of my content before blccking me from it without any warnings and expanations

How I Stole My Own KeyCAPTCHA Twitter Account

July 16, 2011 FAQer 3 comments

In its recent Tweet :

“We have restored an access to our stolen twitter account @KeyCAPTCHA“

as well as in other publications of KeyCAPTCHA.com Team, I am publicly called the thief who stole my own twitter account!

Update: Ooops… Whenever I comment KeyCAPTCHA’s publications, they promptly disappear.
1)Here is, in Russian, KeyCAPTCHA.com wrote:
“He stole our twitter account and started to distort money from us” (sickboy.ru)
2)“He has never been our employee. This person stole our twitter account @KeyCAPTCHA.
And he started to extort money from our company. He threatened us” (circvsmaximvs.com)
3)etc.

@KeyCAPTCHA twitter account has been created, used by me only from my private Gmail accounts by my own private initiative (having been always reprimanded for wasting time for this trash – Social Networking and communication) under its initially given by me username: @Coulombusser on January 20, 2011.
Renamed to @KeyCAPTCHA on Jan 23, 2011 (having changed it before final username @KeyCAPTCHA dozen of usernames).

I am the only author and user (before hijacking of @KeyCAPTCHA from me) having access to its activation link (with code), all , again my private, Gmail boxes and thousands Email notifications (about following, DMs – direct messages, etc) from it.

And I even opened a few support tickets from it on problems of accessing my another private twitter account in February and March, 2011

KeyCAPTCHA.com Team stole access to my @KeyCAPTCHA twitter account on June 3, 2011. by fraud , i.e. by promising to pay me negated earlier salary debt + dismissal fees for which I was caught by police.

KeyCAPTCHA Team does not have access to history of its use, Gamail accounts used with it and activation code!

Well, there are a lot of accounts for everybody in this world. I am not greedy.
Even more, I decided that tweeting is a waste of time for me, especially after Google stopped real-time indexing of Tweets.
KeyCAPTCHA Team, continue wasting it yourself.

But if KeyCAPTCHA Team insists, I can insist in my requests to twitter support to return me my @ KeyCAPTCHA twitter account back as I am the only author and user who has all copies about its activation and history of its use

How I was KeyCAPTCHAured: a Story of Scammed KeyCAPTCHA.com Ex-Employee

July 15, 2011 FAQer Leave a comment

His business, his website, his KeyCAPTCHA - what about users and employees?

“If u are not paying for it,
you’re not the customer;
you’re the product being sold”
~Andrew Lewis

I am a former “employee” of KeyCAPTCHA.com “company”, having worked for it since 11 Dec, 2010 till May, 2011.

I believe that users of KeyCAPTCHA.com external antispam service will be better informed if they know my story of relations with persons providing KeyCAPTCHA service

But wait, there’s more

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