Phil Wolff over at Skype Journal details something I've noticed happening to me a lot lately: to get my attention. I get "friend requests" and "chat messages" from these people. I, of course, block the contact and ignore them.
I've been in the computer industry long enough to know better. These aren't pretty women and men wanting to talk to me. It's a shyster trying to get me to install malware-ladden software on my computer, convince me to pay for pornography, or who knows what else. Whatever it is, I'm not interested.
The simplest way to prevent yourself from being contacted by these people is to not allow IM messages from people not in your contact list. They can try and add me all I want, but I'll ignore them just the same.
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Unfortunately, what the Skype Journal isn’t telling you is that you can’t “block” those unwanted contact requests. You can block chats, and audio, and video, but there is nothing you can to do block the first contact request, or even to stop it from popping up on your screen, complete with whatever picture the sender chooses to include. Since the spammers are continuously creating new Skype accounts to send from, you are subject to a never-ending stream of contact requests – and Skype refuses to even make the minimal changes to let you prevent them from automatically opening in front of whoever happens to be on the computer at the time.
I think you’ve got a good point here. Bottom line: you can’t prevent the pictures and raunchy names from interrupting you.
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