What do you do when…………..
By Ann LeFlore
@poehere (15123)
French Polynesia
October 14, 2015 3:02pm CST
People keep bugging you to accept them on your Skype account. Each day I receive hundreds of request asking me to accept some unknown person to my account. You can tell by the messages they send you they are not who they claim to be. Once you check your blocked list you have 30 different email address and the same names spelled 30 different ways.
Too bad Skype isn’t like a few of the social media account. All you can do is block the person and report the SPAM. It gets old because within 10 minutes they have a new email address and are at it again.
Has this ever happened to you?
I have Skype for my work and to keep in touch with my family. I am the only one living in French Polynesia Tahiti and the rest of my family lives either in America or in Europe. I enjoy the freedom of Skype and getting to talk with them live for free. I also use Skype for my business because I work with a lot of people from around the world.
How do you deal with this? I know you can only block them and report them. But before you block them and report them have you ever wanted to write to them and tell them to leave you alone? What good will that do? They don’t care – all they want is to talk with you and I’m not interested. What are your feeling about people like this?
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8 responses
@pahak627 (5347)
• Philippines
15 Oct 15
Just like you I also received requests for my skype account. I just ignore them. If I have time I delete the request but I did not block them. This time, whenever I open my skype, there are only few friend requests to ignore. Maybe they just became tired of requesting they just stop.
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@pahak627 (5347)
• Philippines
15 Oct 15
@poehere I only open skype once in awhile. That is when I want to chat with my son who is away from me. Maybe it would be different if I am online for longer periods. I observed that there are requesters who kept on coming back even if I already deleted them for the nth time.
@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
15 Oct 15
Yah for awhile they do stop. Then all of a sudden they come in waves again. I get tired of deleting and blocking them.
@troyburns (1405)
• New Zealand
14 Oct 15
I haven't noticed too many repeat offenders on Skype, but I certainly get a lot of junk requests for friendship or money. A waste of time for these pests as I don't need any more friends and don't have any money.
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@dpk262006 (58679)
• Delhi, India
15 Oct 15
I have about skype but I have not used it actually. I did not know that strangers also communicate with you on skype. It is really a headache to deal with strangers requesting you to connect without any specific reason.
@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
15 Oct 15
i don't have an fb account yet how come i keep getting email notifications of friend requests?
@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
15 Oct 15
Maybe someone sighed you up and you don't know about it.
@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
14 Oct 15
the daughter jest put skype on my puter back in july. nobody wishes to speak with me, so it jest lies dormant. i imagine there's so many scammers 'n con artists out there, they jest see this's 'nother avenue to sneak into folks lives.
@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
14 Oct 15
@poehere i'm tellin' ya, nutbirds, weirdos 'n folks up to no good jest seem to abound with all this modern technology. jest aint no place to hide from 'em 'less ya jest unplug.
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@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
15 Oct 15
I do get these requests but not on the scale that you do.
@softbabe44 (5815)
• Vancouver, Washington
15 Oct 15
i have the same things going on with my skype account
