interesting! i am also getting harrassed with random skype numbers calling me multiple times per day, and i have been for about a week. additionally, i am recieving multiple emails per day inviting me into Skype Managers of people I dont know, who are then giving me credit. two days ago i was logged out of a video chat while on the call, and had to reset my password to get back into skype. yesterday, all of my contacts dissapeared from my skype client. today, i noticed that there is a long list of calls to various countries in Africa from my account (i have never voluntarily called Africa). my conclusion is that my account has been hacked into, and my speculation is that for some reason, people are wanting anonymity to make these calls to Africa, and are adding my account to the skype manager in order to dump money into it to make the calls, and they keep changing skype managers so that it wont be tracked.
i did a web chat with customer service yesterday and they were completely unhelpful and were not able to provide any real assistance. they told me to disregard the 6 or more emails i am getting per day inviting me into "Skype Managers" from people I don't know, and the ensuing credit fluctuation that is occurring in my account as i am automatically added to these skype managers, and someone allocates credit to me, and then the credit dissapears. yesterday my skype credit went from around $10, to $80, back down to around $13 all while i was on the live chat with customer service. today it is back down to just a few cents, which is what it is supposed to be.
they also told me to disregard the 6+ phone calls from skype numbers that i am getting per day. the representative said "skype is not calling you" therefore she could not help. they went through basic troubleshooting (quit and relaunch the app) with me that i had already done on my own several times. the call was incredibly frustrating and a waste of my time.
this feels like a huge problem if skype cannot provide protection from this kind of harrassment, and i would be interested in getting in on any legal action.
during the course of writing this, i received 2 calls from the mysterious skype numbers. today i have received over 9 calls from the mysterious numbers so far, starting at 5am. the numbers all begin with 2 and are 11-12 digits long with no spaces. for example "22468212464" and "22463389216". often they just ring my phone once and then hang up, which doesnt allow me to answer. yesterday i was able to answer one of them and the people said "hello? hello?" and then spoke in another language to one another (there were people in the background on the call). i said "wrong number" and then they laughed and hung up.
please help.
