Skam is the new spam

I've just been Skyping with a friend, chatting about the seemingly new technological scurge - Skype spam - or as I have dubbed it - Skam.

This is where people who seemingly have no connection to you try and add you to their contacts. I know you can decline their invitation, which is akin to the spam filter or just a hard delete from your Inbox. But of course people use nicknames with IM clients, so you're never sure if it's friend or foe. Sometimes you allow their request to add you to their contacts, only to find that you have no idea who they are and have just started you in on a 35-way conversation with other un-suspecting Skypers, telling you of the magical properties of their product.

I'm not interested in the technical aspects of how they do this (probably some industrious developer whose extended Skype to just search the universe on email addresses), just make it stop! I love Skype, I've done overseas deals on it and worked with interstate clients on it - I just don't want to be offered Viagra from some Candadian pharmacy, or be asked for some details so I can have $34 million transferred from a Nigerian monarch in exile ... is that too much to ask?