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Captcha,s

Hi peeps 1st off big thx,s 4 all the guys & gals who post .Had a hectic Christmas but had 19 prizes arrive so well pleased.
My gripe is the captcha,s they seemed to have reverted back to letters but these are worse.Entered 2 Telegraph comps & 1 other, none let me in after several attempts.Is this the signs of things to come or just a glitch???

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  • BlueBella
    BlueBella Posts: 10,374 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    I often have to refresh until I get a captcha I can read! Annoying!

    I also hate the ones that show you a set of photos and ask you to, eg 'click on the fish dishes', 'click on the desserts'. as half the time I cannot make out which dishes show fish or desserts!
    :TA big thanks to all who post and sprinkling lucky dust to all who enter :smileyhea
  • towser44
    towser44 Posts: 616 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 500 Posts
    The worst ones are where you know it is the right one you've entered and it still says incorrect! Before Xmas when all the radio stations were giving away £3,000 or £5,000 there were 4 or 5 stations which allowed a number of entries each calendar day. I got to the final station one day and was definitely entering the correct captcha but it was insistent it was incorrect. After several attempts at different captchas I gave up and revisited it later that day when it worked fine. Grrrrrrr!
    :easter:
  • I've noticed I get the letter ones for a few days after a few days of doing a lot more captchas (number ones) than usual.

    For example, today I've had lots of harder/letter captchas (entering telegraph comps etc.) as the last few days I've done quite a few (easy number) captchas on the radio (£2016 etc.) comps - over 200 in last 2 days. I also found that when the walkers crisp £100,000 comp was going in October, I was getting harder/letter captchas on other websites (telegraph etc.), because I was doing 20-50 entries per day on the walkers one. Between October and recently I've only had the easy number captchas because I've been entering way less comps that need them.
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