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kylecurry
My Skype account balance was drained this morning by fraudulent phone calls supposedly made FROM my account to a cell phone in Taiwan. How do they do this? I watched as the calls repeatedly came in and it kept taking my money away, but I couldn't stop it. Then it billed me for a recharge through PayPal before I could stop it by cancelling the auto-recharge feature.

How can this be prevented. If it can't then I need to cancel my Skype Out service and my Skype Pro and stop using.

I lost about $30 or more before I could stop it. If I hadn't been sitting by my computer when it started they could have drained my entire PayPal account.

I opened a support ticket, but is there any faster way to contact support than waiting up to 4 days?

Thanks for any help or info.

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