Attempted scams and fake users

I ahve received an abnormal high number of request to add people to my lis of accepted contacts, including a request for a costumer service type of call which I thought it looked bogus.
The contact requests are mainly of dating nature, and they have all the signs of scammer who want to act upon easy prey on the online dating world.
It has been at least 1 or 2 a day int eh last week or so. I have been marking them as abuse and blocking the users. then I receive another with the same message a few days later, which tells me it is the same group trying it.
I have restricted my account to only receive messages from people in my list, and i have my profile hidden, how these people get my user name to contact me?

you can check the suggestions mentioned here;
http://community.skype.com/t5/Security-Privacy-Trust-and/How-to-Handle-Unwanted-Contact-Requests/m-p...
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