Lately, I’d been having a problem with Skype.
It was nothing to do with the application itself, curiously enough – the IM platform still worked like a charm, and I was able to chat with my contacts pretty much flawlessly. The issue actually had to do with another user, known only as IMPORTANT SYSTEM NOTIFICATION.
See, they decided they’d start to call me incessantly; at least once a day. Apparently, there was something rather vital that they needed to discuss with me. Blocking them didn’t really do any good, and was a temporary solution, at best. Eventually, they’d just call me back from a different ‘number.’
Eventually, I got fed up and decided to do away with such spam altogether.
It’s actually quite a simple process: all you need to do is navigate to your “tools” context menu. Once you’re there, click down to “Options” and select “Privacy” from the menu that pops up. There, you’ll see a number of options related to who can contact you, and in what way. Set everything to either “people in my contacts “or “no one.”
With any luck, that should deep six your spam problem. Like I said, quite simple, but nevertheless a fairly important step.
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