I tried to respond to various requests, but a very cold email alerted me that was not enough, and therefore they could not reactivate my account. As if I was saving all my emails of the last 10 years. If some questions are reasonable, some are really dumb, for example, I possessed about 9 euro credit, purchased more than four years ago and never consumed, how could I remember the order number and purchase date of that credit, made certainly with a credit card in the meantime expired? But the funniest of all is the date of the account creation: I signed up on skype at the beginning of the service, in 2003, how could I remember the exact month and year of registration? According to the Skype support, going to check the email confirming the registration.

I was left literally thrilled, and I began to respond really bad to the person at the other end of the chat.

Please provide us 5 names of your contact list Please be aware that if information provided will be missing or incorrect, your request cannot be processed We will be looking forward to your response so we can assist you further.Payment Details: First 6 and last 4 numbers on your registered Credit Card or PP/Skrill reg.Order number or date of last delivered purchase.To follow up on that request and in order for us to verify your identity, I need the following details from your account: Well, believe it or not, but the list of questions was as follows: I thought “good thing, make me the questions …”.

Maybe someone armed with a script had been doing brute force activity on my account inside some mass attack, in any case, I contacted Skype support.Īt first by chat, a kind young lady has checked a couple of data on my account, and then told me in order to regain access to my account, I would have to answer some security questions. Your skype account has been suspended for security reasons.Īrgh, What could have happened? I usually use somewhat complex password in all my various accounts on the internet, and as far as possible (for my memory) I try to change them regularly, and do not use the same for all the different services that I register to. 0 Flares Twitter 0 Facebook 0 LinkedIn 0 Email - 0 Flares ×įew weeks ago I turned on Skype after a few weeks of time, and I found a “surprise”:

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