Receiving Unsolicited Facetime Requests

I keep receiving unsolicited Facetime requests on my iPhone. I noticed in the morning that this person attempted to Facetime with me during the odd hours of the night, and in the morning they tried to connect again. I wasn't sure if I actually knew the person so I answered the call (with the camera blocked) and asked who this was. All I could hear on the end was laughing and that was it, there was no video of an actual person, but an empty background of someone's room.
I hung up. Afterwards, I kept getting requests over and over from the same user. I finally had to disable Facetime from my iPhone to avoid being harassed. What I don't get is, why isn't there some sort of blacklist or blocking feature in Facetime? This could be a haven for spammers, if they were able to harvest facetime IDs, they could easily spam thousands of people with this communication tool.
So what are my options (other than having to disable my Facetime)?

YOU ARE NOT ALONE. SAME ISSUE JUST STARTED JULY 2015. IF SKYPE DOES NOT PUT IN A FILTER THEY ARE GOING TO LOOSE A LOT OF CUSTOMERS AND THEIR REPUTATION.
THIS IS LIKE GETTING ANNOYING TELEPHONE CALLS FOR DONATIONS EVERY DAY BY HUNDREDS OF CALLERS. WILL SKYPE GET THE MESSAGE? EVERYONE KEEP BEATING ON SKYPE!!!!

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I only use Skype for chats & video calls to my relatives in Australia. Normally I do not receive unsolicited contact requests. I have had them before and they seem to follow either new Skype updates or my Skype activity. I video called OZ last week and I am now receiving 6 or 7 unsolicited contact requests from young women in Africa/Asia each day now?Yes my settings only allow my contacts to contact me and yes I block all the unwanted requests; but it is annoying and upsetting because I do not know how & why it happens and I cannot stop it.Apparently neither can/will Skype?My apologies for being repetitious, I'm just blowing off steam.

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TS2634 My daughter got an ipad for Xmas and I am receiving her facetime and text messages on m iphone

My daughter got an ipad for Christmas and I am receiving her facetime requests and text message from her ipad on my iphone. How do I change this

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My daughter got an ipad for Christmas and I am receiving her facetime requests and text message from her ipad on my iphone. How do I change this
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HT3529 Im getting his messages and facetime requests. Recently others are receiving messages from my daughters iphone and its appearing as my sons itouch. Help!

I set up my son's ipod touch on my apple ID. Recently, I've been receiving all his imessages as well as facetime requests. I don't want to have his messages and he can see mine. ICloud is not activated. Additionally, my daughter, who has a seperate apple ID but does you same computer for itunes and pulls songs from my ID, is having her messages show up to others as if its coming from my son's itouch. I'm not sure what to do at this point but I don't want visibility of my text/imessages on his touch. How do I remedy this problem?

On each different devices go to:
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A phone number only appears if the same Apple iD is used on an iPhone with iOS 6
You do not want the same email address and phone number one different devices.
Best is to use for Messages and Facetime a different Apple ID

Why can't I block certain people face timing and imessageing me? I keep receiving random facetime calls every 5 minutes got to the point where I have has to turn facetime off.

Why can't I block certain people face timing and imessageing me? I keep receiving random facetime calls every 5 minutes got to the point where I have has to turn facetime off.

I'm having the same problem, but it's also coming through on my computer, through my Apple email address. I have a very short Apple email, and little kids are trying to facetime their little friends, and then when I tell them I'm not their friend, they FaceTime or iMessage me even more, thinking that I'm still their friend, and I'm just kidding around.
I can't block the kids before they call...I don't know who they are. I want to restrict my FaceTime to only my phone number, and block all FaceTime and iMessage requests that are coming in through my email address. Can I do that?
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HT204053 Avoiding other family members messages/facetime requests

My daughter has just got an ipad mini for her birthday (lucky thing!)
How do i set her up so her facetime requests, imessages etc do not show up on our other devices (iphone & ipad)? I tried to set up her own appleid but she is too young.
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Welcome to the Apple Community.
You could simply ensure that only the numbers and addresses you wish to use on each device are checked at Settings > Messages > Send & Receive. However this isn’t an ideal solution because the other person can always change these settings from their device and have some fun with you and your contacts.
You’d be far better getting them to delete your account from their device and have them create one of their own. If you are sharing an ID for some other service such as iTunes, you can continue to do so, you only need change the ID for messages.
She may be too young to have her own account, but nothing is stopping you setting up a second account for yourself, and letting her use it.

My daughter's ipod is on my itunes account. Now we're getting each others messages and facetime requests. How do I change that?

My daughters iPod is on my iTunes account. Now we're "linked" so that I get most of her text messages and facetime requests and she gets some of my text messages. Is there any way to make sure this doesn't happen? It's very annoying!!

Welcome to the Apple Community gr8leakes.
You could simply ensure that only the numbers and addresses you wish to use on each device are checked at Settings > Messages > Send & Receive. However this isn’t an ideal solution because the other person can always change these settings from their device and have some fun with you and your contacts.
You’d be far better getting them to delete your account from their device and have them create one of their own. If you are sharing an ID for some other service such as iTunes, you can continue to do so, you only need change the ID for messages.

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Can my other devices open receive my FaceTime calls if we share an Apple ID

Is it possible for others on my Apple ID to be able to receive my FaceTime calls?

No, only if you use a different e-mail address on the other device.

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When I receive an email request for a meeting, when I open it I get an error message asking if I want to revert to server, try again or ignore. If I choice revert to server it delete the event, if I choice ignore it accepts but won't sync with my other de

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Interesting suggestion, but it's not clear to me how I would do that if I'm not using an "(at) icloud.com" email address/account. I am having the same problem with changed invitations that come from an organizer who is using Google Apps. My email account is hosted at my ISP - it's not obvious to me how I can use iCloud to access that email account (and therefore the changed invitation). Suggestions?

HT201493 I have received 3 friend requests via email but I cannot accept them. When I select view request, it just gives me directions on downloading the app and there are no requests in my app. How do I accept the request?

I have received 3 friend requests via email but I cannot accept them. When I select view request, it just gives me directions on downloading the app and there are no requests in my app. How do I accept the request?

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How do I escape from receiving unsolicited calls from overseas females who want to connect,ShaneShane

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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.
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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.
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Someone else receives my facetime calls

Hi,
Since last saturday (3rd May 2014), I see that somelse is making and receiving my facetime calls. The first time, I saw on the phone of my girl friend that she was receiving a Facetime call from my account AppleID. This call was not coming my own phone. Both these phones (the one of my girl friend and mine) were one next to the other when we received this call.
Than we did some tests. When she called me on Facetime, sometime another person has responded (seems to be a little boy).
It seems both our phone received the call (mine and the one of the little boy) and the first who respond take the call, the other don't.
I don't know if my text on iMessage are concerned. No proof of that for the moment, but I have dought.
This little seems to be French, like me. And so I have a theory but I'm not sure of that. I think this little boy has got my previous phone number. Even if this is the cause, I don't know how to resolve it.
Please, could someone help me to recovery the property and the use of my Apple ID on Facetime ?
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It is happening the same to me. I've been receiving FaceTime calls from my gf account for a few weeks, but it's not her. A guy with a mask is making the calls, but I am not sure he is american, since I am not able to understand what he says.
At the beginning I thought it was a FaceTime bug because I started receiving calls while I was already talking on FaceTime with my gf, so I didn't care at all and obviously I didn't answer. But last Friday the iPhone rang again and I answered and saw this guy.
We've been to the Apple store and we've called the customer care maybe 10 times and no one is surprised at all. Is it so common and normal that someone uses your Apple ID to call your relatives and/or your partners??
They just answered that you have to change simply your password, but this doesn't solve anything. In fact, the guy called again a few hours ago and the Apple senior manager decided to transfer our call to the network operator.
I'm totally disappointed with the answers from Apple, since the operators aren't able to avoid future calls from the guy and to dissociate his devices from my gf's icloud account!
I would be very grateful if someone could help me to manage this weird situation.
Thank you very much!

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