Unwanted phone calls

LS,
I have been getting requests from unknown people for some time, mainly woman with exotic names, that I have always blocked. Since a couple of days I keep receiving phone calls from unknown people with similar exotic names. Today it happened twice. I don't want this, how can I avoid these calls?
Regards,
Eric

To avoid receiving any calls like this, you can adjust your privacy to, Change Allow calls from... "anyone" to "people on my Contact list" only.
http://community.skype.com/t5/Windows/Does-anyone-know-what-quot-sys-help-bn3-quot-is/m-p/967658#M71...
you may also block and report the scammers.
https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA10488/how-do-i-block-or-report-a-contact
Regards,
Tamim
Location - Dhaka | Bangladesh - Standard Time Zone: GMT/UTC + 06:00 hour
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