Once upon a time last week, I received a call on Skype and was fairly confused as why one would call me. Well it was a robot recording that would repeat endlessly and went a little like this:This is a notification to update important software. Please go to www...... Failure to do so may result in severe computer malfunction.
With a user name of something like NOTIFICATIONUPDATE, it seemed suspicious. Block and report I did.
I toured around the Skype community and found this is becoming a common platform for scams and spam, much like Facebook, Twitter and probably soon to be Google+, Hooray!
If you have grown up with the internet and have any common sense, much of this is avoided and ignored. Just change your privacy settings, like I will eventually do tonight. However, some people just cannot make the connection. This is a serious situation. If you are reading this, you obviously have common sense, this is just a way to expose accidental ignorance, sort of.
Some people don't get it:
User 2:
I mean WTF? Why the hell would Skype detect a virus? And then, why would it ask me to go to a random website?
In a different instance, a friend of mine had his Twitter account hacked and it sent out messages to his followers. I replied back with:
