It looks like that people's complaints about having their accounts hijacked are beginning to attract some media interest. The online technology newspaper TheRegister Article has recently run a piece on this.

I have secure setup on my PC with good anti-virus and anti-trojan software, but I must say that I'm concerned enough to have de-linked automatic PayPal payment until Skype/Ebay can convince me that their system is safe.

I've emailed Skype on this subject twice. Neither time have they replied! I cant afford the risk - I already been hit twice with ID theft. If they cant be bothered to answer this extremely important issue with a personal email, then I cant be bothered with Skype! I've just removed Skype from my office PC's, cancelled my Papyal authority and cancelled my Skype Pro account.

I lose customers when I dont talk to them as individuals. Skype, so will you!

Since Skype is famous for his poor customer service, I will never link my paypal and skype account together automatically.

Knowing that there is no 100% security in the world of internet, one has to be careful to read his monthly statements carefully from all financial institutions. Normally if you file a dispute, your bank will side with you.

Good morning:

This situation is unreal, painful, desperate and a NIGHTMARE. How can this be happening?.

24 days ago I opened a ticket with support stating clearly that my account had been blocked by Skype. As I explained it to them when I tried to dial ANY number I got a litle sign at the bottom of the Skype program saying:

"Your account has been blocked. Please click here for details"

Well that should have been easy to understand...but not for Skype support. I have received crazy replies from support implying they don't understand that MY ACCOUNT IS simply BLOCKED.

They tell me the number I am dialing is bad or that they don't see my calls or that I must log in with the proper user & password ..

and I keep telling them I CAN NOT DIAL ANY, ANY, ANY number at all because my account is blocked. Period. Is it so hard to understand ?. It does not matter what number I try the call never leaves my PC because the ACCOUNT is BLOCKED by Skype.

I don't know what to do. PLEASEE HELP THIS IS A NIGHTMARE.

Thanks

Reuben
212-372-0918

Good morning:

This situation is unreal, painful, desperate and a NIGHTMARE. How can this be happening?.

24 days ago I opened a ticket with support stating clearly that my account had been blocked by Skype. As I explained it to them when I tried to dial ANY number I got a litle sign at the bottom of the Skype program saying:

"Your account has been blocked. Please click here for details"

Well that should have been easy to understand...but not for Skype support. I have received crazy replies from support implying they don't understand that MY ACCOUNT IS simply BLOCKED.

They tell me the number I am dialing is bad or that they don't see my calls or that I must log in with the proper user & password ..

and I keep telling them I CAN NOT DIAL ANY, ANY, ANY number at all because my account is blocked. Period. Is it so hard to understand ?. It does not matter what number I try the call never leaves my PC because the ACCOUNT is BLOCKED by Skype.

I don't know what to do. PLEASEE HELP THIS IS A NIGHTMARE.

Thanks

Reuben
212-372-0918

Please PM ("Private Message Me") or post your Skype name here.

please do NOT double post, I moved your other SAME post from another forum area here.

Italy police warn of Skype threat

Criminals in Italy are increasingly making phone calls over the internet in order to avoid getting caught through mobile phone intercepts, police say.

Officers in Milan say organised crime, arms and drugs traffickers, and prostitution rings are turning to Skype in order to frustrate investigators.

The police say Skype's encryption system is a secret which the company refuses to share with the authorities.

Investigators have become increasingly reliant on wiretaps in recent years.

Customs and tax police in Milan have sounded the alarm.

They overheard a suspected cocaine trafficker telling an accomplice to switch to Skype in order to get details of a 2kg (4.4lb) drug consignment.

Use of wiretaps by prosecutors in Italy has grown exponentially in recent years.

Heated debate

Investigators say intercepts of telephone calls have become an essential tool of the police, who spend millions of dollars each year tracking down crime through wiretaps of landlines and mobile phones.

But the law may be about to change.

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing government has drawn up a bill which would restrict police wiretaps to only the most serious crimes.

Much crime reporting in the Italian media is based on leaks of wiretaps and leading politicians, including Mr Berlusconi himself, have found to their embarrassment that details of their private telephone conversations have sometimes been leaked to newspapers.

Under the new law reporting of details of criminal investigations obtained through wiretaps would become illegal until a final verdict has been delivered.

Given the extreme slowness of Italian justice, this would mean that details of cases now before the courts might be reported by the press only in 15 years time.

Not only have Italian journalists been protesting at the new draft bill, but a heated debate is also going on about it within the country's highest body for the administration of justice - the supreme council of the magistrature, composed of the country's top judges.