Spam email from Skype?

I am a long-time Skype user. Yesterday I started receiving email from what appears to be Skype from its [email protected] address. The email is fishy for several reasons: It is a welcome email addressed to Skype user "abdullah434771" but that is not my Skype username. The email is a welcome email despite the fact that I have been on Skype for ages. The email is in German (titled "Sagen Sie Hallo zur wundervollen Welt von Skype") but I do not speak German and have never listed it in any preferences. Lastly, it is coming to a legitmate gmail address of mine that is not the main email address linked to my Skype account. I have recevied this message twice now.
I am posting this here because there is clearly something wrong, even though the message visually appears to be a genuine Skype email. I do not want to keep hitting spam in my gmail settings as I did the first time as I do not want my gmail to start treating emails from Skype as spam. Has someone erroneously put my email as their own? What should I do?
Cheers,
Reza

Any person can create a Skype account and register any email address (valid or not) in it. I think this is one weakness of the Skype registration system. Moreover, you may need to report this to Skype Support and request to unlink that unknown account from your email address.
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http://community.skype.com/t5/Security-Privacy-Trust-and/Is-this-a-valid-email-quot-Group-chat-chang...
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Thank you for contacting Skype Customer Support.
From your description, I understand that you are requesting information with certain emails that you have received if they are real.
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Upon checking the e-mail addresses that you have provided, I assure you that these are NOT legit.
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ravenlost123 wrote:
Hi! Two times so far that I received a strange email from Skype, in spanish or something!! I'm wondering what this is all about and why the heck spanish? I'm french canadian!
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Tu crédito quedará inactivo en 3 días.
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Hi as per above, for the last week I have been receiving spam emails from my own email address. Can anyone help me please to put a stop to this and also perhaps explain how it happened? Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much.

'''but not sure what you mean when you say I must not store it on my computer?'''
I was just thinking that if someone or some software agent is accessing your computer then they also have access to saved passwords if for instance it is webmail and the password is stored on Firefox, or if you store logins and passwords in any other utility.
'''I have asked my service provider again for help - waiting to hear from them. I don't store passwords in any other utility that I know of? Are passwords stored automatically somewhere on computers?'''
An obvious thing to do is also make sure you log out of email and do not leave yourself logged in or use the remember me option.
'''Yes, thank you, I always log out and never use the remember me option'''
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'''The emails make some sort of sense but not much. As far as I know I am the only one receiving them but just to be safe I deleted my Address Book. No one else has access to my computer - I am the only one who uses it. :(('''
it is probably worth contacting them again, give a couple of examples of the emails you are referring to and tell them that you yourself did not type those emails. Ask if they can explain how this may have happened.
'''Done and awaiting their response. :) Thank you'''
As a general security measure it is also good practice
to use a limited user account for day to day work not an admin account
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/windows_security_whynot_admin.mspx
to set passwords up to login to your computer
'''what is a limited user account? Also, I am now busy adding a password to my computer and making all files private through User Accounts. Would that help do you think?'''
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/usercpl_create_password.mspx
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'''"oooh, sorry, the above paragraph is way past my limited knowledge? Will read the article again and get back to you. Thank you so much for your help so far. :)'''

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I am a resident of India, and my preferred language of communication is English. Strangely, all the official email (communication/alerts/notifications) that I'm receiving from Skype support is in Chinese (I translate them in google to read them)!
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I had the same thing happen to me today as well. My account was locked between the time I logged off last night and logged back in again this morning. I reset my password and the confirmation e-mail came to me in Chinese. I do not have any stored payment information for Skype, but I checked all the purchase history and everything else on my account. Someone had linked my Skype account to their Microsoft account. I'm assuming that Microsoft account was setup for Chinese and that's where the setting came in from. In my Skype profile, all language settings are English. I've unlinked that Microsoft account, but Skype e-mails are still coming over in Chinese.
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Can you read this? http://skype.m.delivery.net/w/webView?cid=21356219356&mid=4387626762&pid=28400&vid=13846&ee=a3VycmVu...
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I have the same problem .
All my settings in Skype are for the english language, but I still cannot find where to inform you of my email notifications from YOU, Skype to be able to recive them in my own language, English. I have tried several months ago and was told to change my settings in my account to English, they where ALLWAYS English, I never changed them.
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Recive email from skype "Abdullah Binaltaf. Missed...

Subject: Abdullah Binaltaf. Missed emails
To: [e-mail removed for privacy and security]
From: AutoSkypeTeam ([e-mail removed for privacy and security])
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 8:38:03 PM
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Missed emails.
[Link to spam website removed by Moderator.]
Cordially,
The Skype Support.
this is skype support team?

Hi, Abdullah_Altaf, and welcome to the Community,
Removed links cited above, to external websites, were inappropriate to repeat here. No, this correspondence is not from Skype; yet another spoof.
Assign the sender to your junk mail filter.
Regards,
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