Skype - Password Successfully Changed - SCAM

2012-10-02 Thread Ronni Brown
Hi WAMUG Skype users, The Skype 'Password Successfully Changed' email SCAM is making the rounds again, so be careful. The Password Successfully Changed email that claims to be coming from Skype. Needless to say that it looks slightly authentic but there is one thing that makes everything so

Skype password

2012-10-02 Thread Merv Bond
I have received an email advising me that: Password successfully changed Your new Skype password has been set. You can now access your Account, view your call history or change your account settings. If the changes described above are accurate, no further action is needed. If anything doesn't

Re: Skype - Password Successfully Changed - SCAM

2012-10-02 Thread Merv Bond
Thanks Ronni Received your advice after making a posting on this issue. Will delete the email. Haven't opened any links. Cheers Merv On 3/10/12 9:49 AM, Ronni Brown wrote: Hi WAMUG Skype users, The Skype 'Password Successfully Changed' email SCAM is making the rounds again, so be careful

Re: How to access Skype password in Keychain ?

2010-12-28 Thread Robert Miller-Eves
Have you tried launching Skype and then selecting Forgot your/my password? On 28/12/2010, at 3:38 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: I've forgotten a Skype password which is stored in Keychain Access as an 'application password'. When I go into Keychain Access, and select 'Show password

Re: How to access Skype password in Keychain ?

2010-12-28 Thread Steven Knowles
- surely an administrator of a Mac can do this somehow? On 28/12/2010, at 7:57 PM, Robert Miller-Eves wrote: Have you tried launching Skype and then selecting Forgot your/my password? On 28/12/2010, at 3:38 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: I've forgotten a Skype password which is stored

Re: How to access Skype password in Keychain ?

2010-12-28 Thread Ronda Brown
-Eves wrote: Have you tried launching Skype and then selecting Forgot your/my password? On 28/12/2010, at 3:38 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: I've forgotten a Skype password which is stored in Keychain Access as an 'application password'. When I go into Keychain Access, and select 'Show

Re: How to access Skype password in Keychain ?

2010-12-28 Thread Steven Knowles
address it must mean that the person changing the profile email address has the Skype password, hence emailing the reset password details to the profile email address shouldn't be a problem, a point which Skype acknowledged but it couldn't help due to 'privacy reasons'. Basically a scripted answer

Re: How to access Skype password in Keychain ?

2010-12-28 Thread Ronda Brown
. I have contacted Skype, but no joy, Skype quoting 'privacy reasons'. My argument was that if a user could change the Skype profile email address to a current email address it must mean that the person changing the profile email address has the Skype password, hence emailing the reset

Re: How to access Skype password in Keychain ?

2010-12-28 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 28/12/2010, at 3:38 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: I've forgotten a Skype password which is stored in Keychain Access as an 'application password'. When I go into Keychain Access, and select 'Show password', nothing happens, the password is not shown. Is there a way I can access

How to access Skype password in Keychain ?

2010-12-27 Thread Steven Knowles
I've forgotten a Skype password which is stored in Keychain Access as an 'application password'. When I go into Keychain Access, and select 'Show password', nothing happens, the password is not shown. Is there a way I can access the password? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group