Chris Gohlke
03-25-2005, 12:00 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000903037463/' target='_blank'>http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000903037463/</a><br /><br /></div><i>"This week’s Circuits section of the New York Times decided to drop a little knowledge about Skype on us this week, specifically about the phenomenon of people taking advantage of the Skype Me feature to randomly call people in other parts of the world to practice speaking in another language or to get information about a specific place they might be visiting. There’s the usual gushing about how Skype is bringing together strangers from all across the world, just like in the “early days of AOL,” but turns out there’s a downside to using Skype’s Skype Me to open yourself up to free phone calls from anywhere and everywhere: spammers and scammers somehow discovered Skype even before the Times did, and the author himself was called by a Skype user claiming to be a Nigerian model who needed a bit of help depositing four grand into a US bank account."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/logsdon_20050324_skype.jpg" /> <br /><br />While a cool feature, I hate getting random phone calls whether on Skype or on the landline or cell. I'll leave the Skype Me feature turned off.