I use Skype quite a bit. I use it as my work at home phone to call and receive calls using a standard phone number and I use it to let my parents see their grandbaby. So I recently upgraded to the latest release of version 4 and was almost immediately bombarded with “add me to your contact list” spam.
This is especially annoying because the contacts are added to my list (even though I have not approved them) and the options I have set in Skype to only allow people in my list to contact me have no effect at all. This seems to be a very common problem/complaint among Skype users. While there is no solution for this yet, there is a workaround you can do to help curb the problem.
My solution was to uninstall version 4 and go back to the latest release of 3.8. Since doing this,I no longer have this problem.
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