Support Desk <ches...@eng.cmu.ac.th> wrote: > This is to inform you that we are carrying out a site upgrade, as a > mailbox Subscriber, we are carrying out a (inactive email-accounts) > [...] > You are to provide your mail account details as > follows(This will confirm your Cpan mailbox Login/usage Frequency): > > *User name: > *Password: > *Date of birth:
I received a copy and passed it on to one of the admins of cpan.org. I'm curious what their motivations are. Is a freely available CPAN account useful for anything? Or is it merely an the first step in gathering data for identity theft? Asking for date of birth suggests that. I never thought it was all that great the way CPAN accounts were so easy for spammers to obtain. Even the address you have the account forwarded to gets spammed due to the PAUSE application being made public. (Or at least that was the case years ago.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
