If your Skype password is in need of a spring clean, now might be the perfect time to do it - feel free to check out the list of hints and tips on the Skype Security page. luckily there is no reason for anyone to hack my skype account. Spammers take advantage of this, masking the link to the target website with what the victim will see in the chat spam as a legitimate, trusted URL.īelow you can see the initial landing page, the final destination and a screenshot of a Fiddler log: delete the old email (as in literally delete whats entered in the email box then save. Please open this link to fill out the verification form > Verification Form. Since deleting an account can only be done on the account's owner end. Some search engines like baidu encode their search URLs (go to, search for something and then right click / view link for examples). Hi Darko Nikolovski, If you have learned that your Skype account was hacked, you will need to recover it first before you can proceed deleting it. Spammers will often send messages containing shortened URLs - like Bit.ly - to disguise their bad intentions. Here's an example of the spam currently going around: The websites the encoded URLs lead to tend to use redirects - it's possible they've been compromised - before dumping the end-user on a diet spam page.The spam frequently hides the "real" destination by providing (say) a Baidu search engine link instead - along with the Skype Username of the person who clicked the link in the URL.They then use these accounts to send spam messages to contacts.
Scammers use an automated technique to break old / weak Skype passwords (this has been contested by Skype users in that forum thread).
Over the last few weeks, there's been a spam campaign taking place on Skype which involves the following steps:
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