Apparent hacker attack via Skype. (They seem to ha...

We have someone placing phishing calls to us (one of those ones that asks us to go to a different site) but this had the additional details that...
The camera activated before the calls. About a minute or so. We see the light come on and while we are trying to figure out what that is all about the call then comes in.
When the call comes we cannot hang up the call nor even close Skype. We have to either reboot the system or use the windows Task Manager to get rid of it.
So far we have had four of these come in over the past 3 days or so. On three of them we had to shut off the computer to get rid of them. On the fourth I tried the task manager and after killing Skype the call was gone. But then I restarted the system just to be sure.
Also of note is that this morning a friend of mine was describing the exact same thing happening at his house. Both he and his son's computers got one of these calls. Although my friend says he did not notice either way his son does say that he noticed the light was on showing his camera was activated before the call actually came in. In both of their cases they could not get the cal to hang up or Skype to close so they shut down their computers.
Final detail, our comuters are set to not allow calls from people outside our contact list. These calls all came from IDs I have never heard of and are not in our lists.

Well...it seems to me if there was a security hole in Skype itself we'd be hearing about a LOT more cases than the few you're reporting. I wonder if what you're seeing isn't a case of a few Skype users you know having their accounts hacked. (That does happen.)
Think about it...if I was on your Contacts list, and someone hacked my Skype account, and the hacker sent you an IM that seemed to come from me with a link to malware, you'd think the message was from me, someone you knew, and you might click on the link.
If I were a phisher in that situation I'd say something in my IM like..."hey it's me. Take a look at this. It's safe and it works great."
I'm not putting my tin hat on just yet but I will see if I can bring this thread to the attention of someone at Skype.
edit: A forum Moderator is aware of this thread and will be bringing it to the attention of the appropriate people at Skype.
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