Bogus account created using my email, unable to cl...

Just a few minutes ago I got a welcome to skype email to an alias of my real email address. This is a bogus account created using my email.
To take control of this bogus account, I used the "lost password" functionality which successfully sent me a reset token, however when I attempt to use this reset token, skype reports that the token is not recognised.
How can I claim control of this bogus account that is using my identity? Or how can I get this bogus account deleted?
Thanks!

I just realised something very significant!
I got the welcome to skype email approx 20 minutes ago.
Just prior to getting this apparently bogus account, I had clicked an link from a friend that was hosted on Sky Drive (approx 26 mins ago).
Now, my alias email address has been used to access other microsoft services online before, but had never been used for skype.
Evidently I was signed into the live account that used my email alias, and when I clicked the sky drive link, Big Brother decided I also wanted a skype account using that alias!
Ok so this isn't identity theft but still, what the hell? I didn't want to sign up to skype! Why on earth did a bogus skype account get created for me automatically? And why can't I now claim the password for this account?
This is freaky Microsoft! Why are you doing this? Can't you just let me silently tracked in an invisible way? Can't you let me at least pretend I'm not being tracked? Why do you have to be so 1984 here?
Proposed solution: let's all move to the hills, become nature loving nudists who disdain modern technology, and we should all wear tin foil hats.

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