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Last time I looked at MTurk, it was offering money if I would complete some simple task, and, oh, by the way, download this crapware onto your computer and run it.

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To be fair, those types of HITs are forbidden by the terms (often removed quickly) and, in my experience, tend to be rare.

That sounds a lot like someones research project: http://threatpost.com/research-project-pays-people-to-downlo...

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