Your safety and the security of your calls and messages is crucial to us. Here are some tools and features we've designed to help you stay safe while using Skype.
When you receive a message from someone in a group chat or 1:1 chat not in your contacts, we provide signals to help you decide how to respond. These signals indicate if they are in your contacts or if you have mutual contacts. You can then choose to reply, add them as a contact via accepting the message, report them or block them.
You can block a contact to prevent them from calling you, sending you instant messages, and seeing your presence status in Skype. You can do this anytime via the user’s profile or by reporting a concern.
We catch and remove most spam and bad actor accounts before they can even reach you or before anyone reports them.
Have private conversations that are secured with end-to-end encryption. These conversations use the industry standard Signal Protocol, ensuring that the chat remains private.
Ensure only you can access your Skype account via enabling two factor authentication on account.microsoft.com.
You can report a concern or abuse on messages, images or other items of abuse anytime by simply clicking/ tapping on the message. This notifies us of spam or other harmful content, so we can take appropriate action
Set your device to only allow calls from contacts to ring to avoid any unwanted calls from non contacts.
Choose if and how you appear in Search results for people you haven’t connected with.
