May 13, 2008

Just got my first piece of Skype spam

I’m shockingly new to the world’s favorite VOIP service, but while logging in today for my video conference call with swissmiss and co, I got the following almost instantly:

Hello Elihorne, the adult hottest singles online matchmaking service with full best features and over 6 million members. Free join now!

http://www.*****.com [domain removed because I refuse to support the bastard]

The fact that a free service is prone to spam is not a new concept, but I’m confounded as to how they found me, and why. Is there a public timeline like on twitter? I don’t list my skype username on my website (even though I suppose it wasn’t hard to guess if I were actually being targeted…).

Skype Spam Screenshot

Does everyone suffer from this? On the upside, I discovered the “block” feature. Yay for forced learning.