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The fact that your contacts didn't receive any spams does not mean that other people were not targeted using your account, hence Microsoft was completely in their right. It's not necessary for someone to be on a contact list to get spammed.

Ok, So as I stated, creating an account does not require a phone number as a prerequisite, meaning anyone can create one. So questions:

1) Why would anyone bother to 'hack' an account to send spam to random people, when they can just create one?

Ans: They wouldn't, they would just create one. They would only hack an account to send spam to its contacts, so the contacts would think it was legitimate, and be more likely to accept the message at face value.

2) Look at my username on this forum, my email address is even more complicated, and my password is about 4 times more complicated than that, so if a 'hacker' has guessed it, they are extremely skilled. As I said in my question, I use the same password for my email address. Wouldn't an extremely skilled attacker (who probably spent days obtaining my password) at least take 1 minute to see if they could get into my email account?

Ans: Yes they would, but the alleged 'hacker' didn't do this, which means they are likely not skilled, which is a paradox, or Microsoft is lying.

Hi

If I were a spammer, I would certainly try to use another account then mine so I could not be traced. Most of the spams on Skype are for illicit operations not for marketing goods and services. There has been an increasing numbers of frauds coming from African countries. I personally received spams but I only have three contacts for business. How do you think that spammers got a hold of my Skype account name when I use it only once every four or five months ?

Your Skype Account Can Be Hacked Using just your email address. There has been reports of a security hole in Skype's password recovery tool means that your account can be hacked using just your email address and username. There are complex Skype hacking software going around Skype that exploit the latest Skype vulnerabilities and deliver the intercepted information to external servers.

Yes hacker are skilled! Addresses and/or passwords can be obtained through intrusions either on your computer or the Skype servers. Have you lately had your computer checked for Trojan horses, spyware or other types of viruses? I can help you to do that.

Perhaps you can try creating a new account?

I trust that I have answered all of your questions to your satisfaction