How do scalper bots buying electronics get past the “are you a robot” check?

Question

I basically read an article explaining how scalpers (people buying up stock and selling them at prices only the foolish and desperate would allow) use bots to buy up stock? But on most online stores I shop at there are bot checkers, so how do they get around that?

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Answer 1

There are services that allow you to send captchas to real humans elsewhere and have them do it and send the results back to the bot to put in. Or there are other bots trained to defeat captcha and can be accessed by the scalper bots to fill it out in a fraction of a second (or purposefully longer depending on what the captcha system looks for)