Unwanted contact

i keep getting text from [email protected] saying hello. i have responded once by asking who it was and they tried to initiate video which i declined. then they went offline. how can i prevent this? has anyone else had contact like this? is it a risk?

Hi repsaj5791,
Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Not to much to worry about.
What is happening is that someone in the Apple Store at The Grove in Los Angeles, CA is trying to chat with you! Have you ever been in that store and maybe put your .mac or AIM info into one of the machines? In this particular case, the way to tell who it is is by the name:
ars=Apple Retail Store, 050=the store location, in this case L.A. and to narrow it down further, .32= the machine number assigned in the store!
It is very harmless and is no risk at all. Infact, I often TRY to chat with various Apple Stores around (to give potential buyers a firsthand go with iChat) and can rarely get anyone with enough nerve to chat with me! ;~)
I would say have fun with it, but if you want to block them, go to iChat Preferences>Security and hit the bottom radio button (Block specific people), click on Edit List to the right and type in the offending address.
If you have never been to that particular Apple Store and put in your info then one of your friends must have gone there and chatted with you and put you on the buddy list of that machine. Otherwise it would be a complete fluke (I can't imagine the odds) that your .mac or AIM address wound up on a machine half way around the world!
Good Luck,
John
G5Dual 2Ghz, 23 ACD, iSight Mac OS X (10.4.7) 20" Intel iMac

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Upon reading Primemover's [Power User] ‎25-07-2012 20:39 - edited ‎25-07-2012 20:52 response to "How to Handle Unwanted Contact Requests"
(reference : http://community.skype.com/t5/Security-Privacy-Trust-and/How-to-Handle-Unwanted-Contact-Requests/m-p...
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