Harrasement from unknown contacts , privacy settin...

For the past 3 weeks i keep getting ims from people that are not on my contactlist , trying to chat with me .
Even though all my privacy settings are set to allow only people in my contact list to IM me , everyday i get atlest 10 new ims from unknown people that are not on my list.
Further more all the people happen to be male trying to chat with me .
I updated to the latest version of skype and i got to privacy settings and revert to basic settings and turn the setting to be contacted only by people in my list . I press save and when i go back to the tab , the setting is always automatically switched back to allow everyone .
This is getting very annoying and is a  complete breach of privacy .
I do not wish to be contacted or receive IMs from anyone that is not on my contact list as i have stated through my privacy settings. 
I await you to resolve this problem Asap please.
Regards.

unfortunately, there is no option yet to block/filter contact requests (which now also appears like an IM message), regardless if they are requests from legitimate users or from possible spammers/scammers. The only things you can do at the moment is indeed to ignore and block them (and report them to abuse@skype,net).
The Privacy Settings in Skype can only prevent/stop unwanted calls/instant messages from non-contacts, not contact requests.
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