NY Times tackles Skype's Skype Me feature

Ever ahead of the curve (at least until the section gets killed later this year today), this week's Circuits section of the New York Times decided to drop a little knowledge about
Skype on us this week, specifically about the phenomenon of people taking advantage of the Skype Me feature to randomly call people in other parts of the world to practice speaking in another language or to get information about a specific place they might be visiting.
There's the usual gushing about how Skype is bringing together strangers from all across the world, just like in the
"early days of AOL," but turns out there's a downside to using Skype's Skype Me to open yourself up to free phone calls from anywhere and everywhere: spammers and scammers
somehow discovered Skype even before the Times did, and the author himself was called by a Skype user claiming to be a Nigerian model who needed a bit of help depositing four grand into a US bank account. He managed to turn down the offer, but now that we know there's some easy money to be made using Skype, we're setting our user status to Skype Me.