Unsolicited calls and contact requests - mostly fr...

Although I have had all "contact me" options blocked for all users except those in my contact list, I get several contact requests every day - typically from people purporting to be women from Ghana, Africa. The town given is usually Kumasi - though often with another country. South Afrioca figures highly too. I suspect that these are the same person or persons, who repeatedly use different ID's and acocunts. For the past six months or so i have always blocked and reported abuse on the4se, but they keep coming. Is there no way for a user to block unsolicted calls from a given geographical area? Is there no skype "contact us" link anymore? Where does on complain about this? Ideas and suggestions please!

katjas wrote:
I have the same problem. I've checked my privacy settings many times and changed to allow calls and IM from contacts only, but each time I come back to privacy settings it is set to "anyone". I even tried to uninstall and install skype, didn't help.
I would also appreciate if I could contact support team at Skype somehow to check my account settings...
I'm not sure of what the logic behind this procedure, but actual responses from users who tried it confirm that it works.
Please switch your status to offline for at least a minute, then switch back to online.  Then change your privacy settings to see if they will stick this time.
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