my phone rang. It was "Online Service" calling. This time I did pick up, somewhat curious that the Skype laptop program and the Skype app were so closely linked. I listened to a robot voice excitedly telling me that a virus had been detected on my computer, affection (a whole bunch of Microsoft programs that I don't have) and that I needed to go to [probably bogus] website and download the patch. Yeah, I don't think so.
But it does surprise me that Skype is so open to this sort of abuse. I'm not bothered, just surprised.
Anyone else get phone spam through here?
A year or two ago, an apparent spammer asked to share contact info with me, but I've never received a spammish phone call on Skype, or on my landline originating from anything I recognized as being related to Skype.
I've used Skype Out for all of my non-cell phone calls for most of a year now, and have been using Skype to communicate with other Skype users for more years than I can easily remember.
Your experience with "Online Service" surprises me, too.