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2006-10-31 Document version 2.0 Beta

Preventing “spam” and “spit”

Spam is the scourge of today’s Internet. Unsolicited commercial e-mail is an unwanted

reality of e-mail communications today. Skype has taken steps to prevent the use of Skype

as a tool to help spammers or those who spam over internet telephony (“spit”).

Users can take an active role in countering spam and spit by authorizing only users whose

identity they have confirmed. Users can set their privacy settings to that they can be called

only by persons who know them. Users can include a note in their Skype Profile asking

potential callers to send them a chat message before calling.

In addition, Skype does not make e-mail addresses available to people who might try to use

the Skype on-line directory to find potential advertising targets. Even though Skype users

may include their e-mail address in their Skype profile, email addresses are not be made

available to others.

Note: A valid email address in a user’s Skype profile enables lost password recovery and

allows other Skype users to use the email address as a search term when adding Skype

names to their contact lists. Refer to “Where Does Skype Store Data” below for more

information on how Skype handles email addresses.

Just as is the case with any e-mail and/or web communication, Skype users should know

they are communicating with before they divulge any private information over Skype.

As described earlier, Skype’s security model ensures that no one can counterfeit a user’s

Skype identity or easily masquerade as someone else. But like email, it is each Skype

user’s responsibility to prevent their Skype account from being accessible by persons other

than themselves, especially in situations where other people may have access to or be

sharing the same computer. Please report abuse to Skype by e-mail to abuse@skype.net.

How to Prevent Phishing

Skype will never, under any circumstances, ask Skype users to divulge passwords over

email.

As is the case in other e-commerce sectors of the Internet, Skype users might receive false

e-mails or encounter third-party web pages designed to look like e-mails or web pages

created by Skype Technologies S.A., and intended to con users into giving up their Skype

name and password. This kind of attempt to collect user’s credentials has been given the

name “phishing”, and it is rapidly becoming the #1 threat to individual users on the

Internet.

Inform users that they should use their Skype user password only for logging into the

Skype client itself, when managing their Skype account on the web at

https://secure.skype.com/store/member/login.html, or logging into other know-to-be-valid

Skype accounts such as https://developer.skype.com and https://skypecasts.skype.com.

If a Skype user believes he has been the victim of phishing, he should change his password

immediately and refer the situation to Skype Abuse by e-mail to abuse@skype.net. IT

administrator’s can help by describing these types of problems in detail and include any

phishing e-mails or URLs of the phisher’s web page.

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