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by Sue Walsh on March 6, 2008

Spam over IM is far from new. Anyone who has AOL's instant messaging service has experienced being spammed over it at least once. Spammers use bots to send out huge amounts of IM's. The same technique is used in chat rooms-most often to promote dating and porn sites. Seems like they've now moved on to Skype.
Read this informative post on the Skype Journal to read more about this technique and how to protect yourself and your users from it.
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Response from:
Curtis E. Mayle
(08/24/09 7:05pm)
Skype's spam blocking mechanism's don't work. Porn spam is a HUGE problem with popups onscreen, sometimes 20 a day (wonderful feature for kids, grandma, and business productivity, don't you think). Check out the 15 or so threads on their user forum for a plethora of angry users and an unresponsive company.
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