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Maybe it was an old debit card from a bank account that’s long since closed?… (a lot of banks closed between 2003 and now). I also typed in every credit card number I could think of including one I’ve had since 1994. I was living in Germany AND the US at the time so I don’t even remember if I used Germany or US as the country when I started. I joined in 2003 or 2004 or…? I don’t exactly remember. And good things were i didnt need to spend money, delete my account, or lose all my contacts.Ĭoz its pretty annoying and causing me not be able to chat at that moment. So I just follow my curiosity and finally figure this out. I dont know IT language, software, or whatever. Last, They will direct you to skype home to log in with you new password.

Third, they will direct you to this link : Ĭlick sign in, enter your skype name & passwordįorth, they want you to change your password for security.

If you had among your contacts “dellock”, my new account is instead “dellock6”, add me to your contacts again if I did not sent you the invite.Īnd do an offline backup of your contacts … In the Contacts table I found all my old contacts, so I was able to send them a new invitation to connect. I lost over 200 contacts and even 9 Euros, which at this point I should suppose ended up in Microsoft’s wallet … I was at least able to restore my contacts: I found in the local installation a file called main.db and I opened it with SQLite Database Browser. Try it, without going into your Skype account, to answer all the questions I mentioned, are you able? If your answer is no, well you’re better learn the answers and write them down somewhere, could be your only hope to recover your skype account.Īfter 3 weeks of more and more acid emails to Skype support and their dumb safety rules I gave up to recover my previous Skype account. Ironic, isn’t it? Now, given my past I know something about Information Security and I know that the levels of security must be sufficient to keep out the bad guys, but not excessive to the point of excluding even the legitimate users. Our customer’s security is our main priority so I hope you understand we need to treat this with caution.

The final phrase, repeated in the same chat and email (and therefore the result of some copy / paste), was as follows: 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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