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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on March 6, 2008
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.
photo credit: philwolff
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Response from:
J.A. Watson
(03/08/08 6:15pm)
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.
Response from:
Dameon Welch-Abernathy
(03/09/08 4:11am)
I think you've got a good point here. Bottom line: you can't prevent the pictures and raunchy names from interrupting you.
Response from:
neon
(08/01/09 3:13pm)
**Your site is very easy in terms of expression and open. I think everyone who enters your site is very gratifying, but also sharing a very nice opportunity to give ...
**Your site is very easy in terms of expression and open. I think everyone who enters your site is very gratifying, but also sharing a very nice opportunity to give ...
Response from:
ArZka
(08/19/09 7:59am)
I'm getting sick and tired of these porn contact requests. I've contacted Skype about this, and if they have no solution for it, I'm just going to uninstall Skype and never look back. Enough is enough.
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