Train ticket booking: IRCTC responds after complex math CAPTCHA image goes viral
The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has clarified a viral image showing a complex mathematical CAPTCHA for train ticket booking status. The image, which appeared to require users to solve a complicated mathematical question, was debunked as fabricated or AI-generated. IRCTC revealed that its current CAPTCHA is a simple arithmetic-based one, involving basic addition or subtraction of two-digit numbers.
The viral image, supposedly showing a complex mathematical CAPTCHA, does not correspond to the CAPTCHA functionality currently in use on the IRCTC website. Users are not required to solve the type of complex mathematical expression depicted in the viral image when checking their train ticket booking status. IRCTC clarified that the CAPTCHA shown in the circulated image was fabricated or manipulated.
Genuine passengers can verify the CAPTCHA by accessing the official IRCTC website directly, rather than relying on circulated images or posts on social media. The CAPTCHA on the IRCTC e-ticketing website was introduced to prevent ticket bookings through automated scripting tools and batch-mode booking, protecting the genuine passenger from unscrupulous elements using scripting software to corner tickets.
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