Contact request whcih has no decline option

I have a contact request which doesn't give me the option to decline it, I don't know the person, how do I get rid of it?

I would like to know this answer too. My Skype at hme is on a Windows XP and it doesn't have Decline option but my Skype at work on Ubuntu does. I would rather Decline rather than block a lot of the requests I get.

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Unblock contact request

I wish to unblock a contact request that has also been reported as spam. How do this please.
THe contact request was from "[e-mail removed for privacy and security]", because there was no photo I blocked and reported this person by mistake as she is my sister.
I look forward to you rreply.

1. No. They don't get notified when you block them or unlock them. 2. They don't receive a friend/contact request unless you send them one. If you sent them a friend/contact request in the past, deleting them should nullify that request.

How to automatically decline contact requests?

I had a creepy girl on Skype ask me if I wanted to see her camera and share dirty pics so I said no them blocked her. And that repeted 6 times. How would I set up Skype to where it automatically declines contact requests because I only add people that I actually know.
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Hi, Mr_Secret, and welcome to the Community,
Skype currently does not provide such a setting. Perhaps you would consider supporting this idea on the Windows Idea message board?
http://community.skype.com/t5/Windows-desktop-client-Ideas/Implement-an-option-to-be-quot-unfindable...
Regards,
Elaine
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Suggestion: Contact Requests - Privacy Options

Suggestion:
Addition to Advanced Privacy: options to control who can send the user a Contact Request.
Example:
Allow Contact Requests from...
anyone
people in my Contact's Contact list
no one
from a list of email addresses (Add email address)
from a list of Skype names (Add Skype name)
Details of Example:
Anyone: anyone may send the user a Contact Request.
People in my Contact's Contact list: comparable to "Friends of Friends" in other websites.
No one: User will not recieve Contact Requests.
From a List: this option allows a user to allow specific users to send them a Contact Request. Anyone who is not on the list cannot send a contact request to the user. To add names to this list, the user would input a Skype name or email address in a textbox. The default list is blank.
(parenthesis) = clickable buttons. When clicked, a window will open in Skype and prompt the user to enter an email address and/or skype name.
= circles the user would click to choose the option.
To reduce the amount of options, email and name could be combined into one section.
Some users might want to choose "people in my Contact's Contact list" and the list of users, I suggest the ability to select multiple options, unless the selected option would conflict with another.
The list of email addresses and/or names that the user has added could be accessable through menu options, and/or somewhere within the Privacy Settings.
If something like this was implemented, I believe the numerous complaints about strangers sending unwanted Contact Requests would be greatly reduced, if not eliminated.
I am aware of the current solution with unwanted Contact Requests: to Block and Report, and make our profile as "uninteresting" and plain as possible. I have done as suggested, and I still get unwanted Contact Requests. I do not want to be blocking a dozen requests per day, but that's what the current solution leaves us with. To me, and many other users, "Block and Report" is not a satisfactory solution, but it is our only option at this point if we want to continue using Skype.
I'd also wish to point out that for some users, the inability to prevent Contact Requests is unsafe. Some users are mentally impared, or very young, and don't know a stranger from a friend. I'd hate to think that some of these innocent users could be financially, physically, and/or emotionally hurt by one of these deceptive contacts. Online safety is important.
P.S. Thank you Skype for allowing us to communicate to you in these forums.

Hi,
Skype application has built-in privacy settings that you can use to restrict who is allowed to contact you, but you can still receive new contact requests. This allows friends that you do not have in your contact list to ask to share contact details with you.
Unfortunately, there is a small minority of people who abuse the Skype software. We have resources dedicated to a number of ongoing anti-spam initiatives so that we can effectively deal with people who send unsolicited messages.
Please continue to block and report abusive users to us. This helps us to identify and prevent spammers.
To block contact in Skype (Windows), please visit: https://support.skype.com/faq/FA10488
To block contact in Skype (Mac), please visit:
https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA10870/how-do-i-manage-my-contacts-in-skype-for-mac-os-x?frompage=...
We are working hard to prevent spammers from contacting you, and we do take action against them where appropriate.
Hope this helps.
Julian

Declining hundreds of contact requests at once

I have received 370 contact requests in a short period of time, all from different people. How can I easily decline all 370 requests?

I have tried this a few times as I wanted to archive some mail to a PDF file. I select a group on mail message and then select print. It only shows one of the messages being ready to print. Because it only showed one file, I presumed that it would only prin the one file.
Based on your response, I went ahead and tried the print to PDF. It created a separate PDF file for each mail item. I then selected all of the PDF files, opened them with preview and did a second print which comned them all into one file.
Thanks for your comment. As you say, it does print groups of mail items. It is just not obvious that it is going to do it.

HT1918 my credit card has been declined and i dont know why

all of a sudden apple keeps saying "your payment method has been declined" ive had my apple account almost 2years and never had a problem so why now?

You've checked the purchase history on your account (Store > View My Account, Store > View My Apple ID on iTunes 11, menu option on your computer's iTunes), and have you made any in-app purchases or have any auto-renewing subscriptions ? If not then you can contact iTunes support via this page amd see if they can help : http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/contact/ - click on Contact iTunes Store Support on the right-hand side of the page, then Purchases, Billing & Redemption

Spam contact requests

I have had a Skype account for several years, I have never had so may spam contact requests as in recent months. I have the highest privacy settings and always report and block spam. It still comes through - often with the same photos and message requests. What is being done to stop this? What is the point of blocking, if nothing is done to trace and prevent it from happening again?

Hello,
Did anybody get a fix for this im getting 2-3 requests every day, surely if you set allow msgs from contacts only this should stop them.. I understand that if skype blocks contact requests nobody can get in touch, but I would be much happier if this option was available in the privacy settings. This seems to be a problem that is just ignored by Skype but seems to be irritating the users. If anybody has a fix, I would like to know it...

Contact request invation

I am bein envaded by contact request from what pretends to be girks with sex pseudonymes. How can I block this?

I would like to know this answer too. My Skype at hme is on a Windows XP and it doesn't have Decline option but my Skype at work on Ubuntu does. I would rather Decline rather than block a lot of the requests I get.

Contact request showing a pending IM message with ...

Hi - received a contact request today from a person unknown to me.
When I look at the request, there is an IM showing in the history, with the status 'pending', that looks like it has come from me (it has my actual name at the top of the message line, not my user name).
That is odd all by itself, but the content of the IM is one of my passwords, used in other applications/programs.
I have declined the request - and have noticed that the person requesting is offline.
Has anyone ever experienced this?
I have now changed all apps / progs that use this password but it is a little worrying. How did they know my password? It absolutely is not easy to guess and I have never disclosed it.
I am running Skype on a iMac, iPhone 4S and an iPad 2.
Any suggestions on what is going on here?
thanks....

but this means ill have to re enter all my contacts and passwords. i store all my invoices on my phone via an invoice app. restoring from new would mean i would lose all that info which i cant afford to do. thanks for the help tho. maybe ill just have to ride it out till the cache clears out.

Unsolicited contact requests (spams / junk)

I though Skype would have been a better platform, but it appears to be the worst of the worst. I am constantly inundated with (mostly sexual) unsolicited contact requests. I do not have the time to keep blocking every day.
Does Microsoft have a plan and timeline on fixing this? Else I will be uninstalling Skype.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

What I want is a solution that handles the problem terminatedly! I do get multiple unwanted requests daily (4 already and its only 9AM). This situation has gotten worse over the last few weeks.
I talked with customer support and have set all the privacy settings according to recommendations and even changed my profile name - I was assured this would stop the requests. Well none of the recommendations work.
So why have this privacy setting "Allow messages from: Contacts" if it does not work? Its a little like those buttons at crosswalks.
It seems like a simple formula - contact request does not equal contact on my list = reject it! I will gladly add a person I want to my contacts. How you ask? They can call me on the phone, send me an email, talk to me in person, contact a friend, post on my Facebook - if they don't have any of these then they are a contact I don't need. Will this cause an inconvenience? Maybe but I am not unreachable.
Skype is a tool. A very handy tool for texting, calling, file transfers, conferencing. I use it every single day.
I sympathize with the person who started this thread. Their solution is unworkable for me since Skype is as integral to my business as an internet connection. So the only option Skype has left me is to close my account and open up another one.
This is a VERY BIG hassle as anyone with hundreds of contacts might imagine.
So I ask....make the privacy setting you promote really work. Exclude all contact requests, delete them, do not let them thru, obliterate them, send them all to SPAM hell if they are not on my contact list! Simple, easy, and straight forward.
Can you do this?

Random Blackerry Messenger Contact Requests

Hi, I keep receiving hundreds of contact requests on blackberry messenger from people that I don't know. I've honestly received 400 requests so far today.
I haven't shared my pin on twitter or facebook, etc. so I don't know how these people have gotten it!
Is there any way I can stop or block this?
Thanks.

Somehow, somebody has got ahold of your PIN. Perhaps you bought your phone second-hand? If it's the odd request here and there, I usually suggest it's just somebody sending out random requests but since you're receiving so many, it's beyond that.
The only real solution is to exchange your phone for another one thereby swapping PINs. Technically, there is no method of filtering which requests should come to your phone and which ones should be bounced. As long as you keep this PIN active, the requests will probably continue to come in.
Not advice you wanted to hear but I see no other solution.
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2 Random contact requests

So I just logged in to skype and found 2 random contact requests from I presume strangers. I have no idea who they are. I stupidly replied to one but got a reply back. So I was wondering was this a potential scammer? I've bot blocked and declined the contact request as well as launching a full computer scan and there is no potential threats found. Was I paranoid or was this a scam.

In your privacy setting there is an option to only allow messages, calls and such from people in your contacts. Just double check to make sure it's all checked properly
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Another contact-request scam (???)

This is the contact-request message I received followed by the “chat” I had with what I am assuming was a bot:
sandra.hamiltonvlq
“Hi, I was checking ppl near me and i came across your page and you seemed worth talking to ”
(ME): Uhm...how did you check for people "near" you when Skype does not give you the option to search for users based on location???
[12:50:28 AM]
sandra.hamiltonvlq: k, well, I have to go . ... Hmm.. would you like to check out my profile and pics..?
[12:50:42 AM]
sandra.hamiltonvlq: check it out: http://www.date-arcade.com/?id=6589&profile=talinm
[12:50:57 AM]
sandra.hamiltonvlq: search for me as talinm.
The profile originally had a picture of a girl, but the picture disappeared when I sent the instant message. I blocked and reported the account when the bot responded. Has anyone else received a message from that account or instructions to go to that site? Is this a well-known scam like the others (such as Friendjungle) to get credit-card information?

most likely it is a scam, or at least an annoying strategy to promote that particular site. you indeed made the correct action of blocking the user and reporting them to skype. you can also set your privacy settings to allow messages (and calls) from people in your contact list only, to avoid receiving such unwanted communications in the future.
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Skype sent out contact request without permission?...

Alright so I contacted support over this and they just said they couldn't answer my question because they didn't know. I guess I'm not searching for answers anymore but just seeing if this has happened to anyone else or if someone can find some error I made to make this happen ... Thanks for your time in reading.
SO... Awhile back I deleted my ex from Skype and blocked him. I would like to mention I had him blocked numerous times but he could still send a contact request...... Anyways... I had him deleted and blocked and then three days ago, randomly out of NOWHERE... I look at my contacts and he's in them- saying that IVE sent a contact request to HIM.................... And it offered the option to resend it. I flipped out so hard because it really does make me look crazy if he got a contact request from me............ Out of nowhere ....
I can only hope it was a one sided thing and he never got the receiving end of that message. I had him blocked but nowhere in the chat near 'resend request' did it say 'this contact is blocked' as I seem to remember it doing before.
Ugh.. This situation had me so fearful that it would start like, spamming contact requests or later on doing something else because if Skype support can't explain it, then im just gonna just go ahead and say my account was possessed. To try and counter this, I deleted the account today and made a new one.
So yeah, anyone have any similar experience? ... Did I do something critically wrong that somehow did this? Is it possible /he/ was the one sending the request? (OFC that doesn't make sense because it was giving me the option to resend and saying it was pending.) also, if it's pending does that mean he hasn't accepted and the request was waiting there or could it be rejected and still say pending?
Thanks for your time xoxoxox ♡

ambitiouswhiteg wrote:
Today I had a new person added to my contacts list, (not recent conversations), that I did not approve. I have had people I don't know randomly request to be added but this is the first time where someone was added without my consent.
First off, I would like to report this individual since he has obviously circumvented Skype security features. He is soliciting his S. African business through his profile. How do I go about reporting this because aside from this forum on security I can't find a way to report on your website. I have read several other users post similar stories dating back a few years and I am surprised this is still an issue although I am grateful I have never had this happen before.
Here is the information on the unsolicited contact:
*edited for privacy*
Please advise,
Chrystal
you can send this information to the department specifically handling cases of abuse of Skype services - [email protected]
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Pending Contact Request

I can't talk to my parents in another country on video Skype...because there is no way to accept their contact request! The tutorial looks nothing ike my Skype screen. So upset, it's Mothers Day and I couldn't see my mum! Please...any suggestions? Thanks...

Suddenly, after all the headache of trying to add folks and they add me, someone requested that I add them as a contact; then, what do you know the option displayed in the chat window of the requester to accept or decline; also, they were able to add me, woohoo! Then I got a couple other request which verified that request is working back to normal. That is what I'm talking about is action on Skype's behalf rather than to lose customers who do enjoy using Skype. Guess I will keep my paid subscribed phone number as a way of thanking Skype for the service and do not mind paying a SMALL fee to support the Skype platform and the technology. Hope everyone elses is working now.

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