Skype email: "Important - new Microsoft service contract" - spam?

Many users received an email from Skype in the early morning of June 10th, 2015. The subject: "Important - new Microsoft service contract". For many recipients, the message looks like spam. You can read whether the Skype emails are real in this practical tip.

"Important - new Microsoft service contract" - this is what the right Skype email looks like

• Most German users received the mail in the early morning of June 10th, 2015. The email address is " ", but may vary slightly. Although official emails have often been sent from this address, the email appears suspicious of spam at first glance. Because the Skype users are not addressed with your name.
• If the beginning of the Skype email looks the same to you as on the right, it is not spam. Upon request, Skype confirmed that the email was genuine.
• If you are not sure yet, go to any link in the mail. If an official Skype address is then displayed, it is not spam.

Receive email from Skype: Why the email?

• Microsoft has a wide range with Outlook, Skype and other services. If you use several Microsoft services, you must always accept different data protection declarations.
• The new Microsoft service contract introduces the uniform Microsoft data protection declaration. Microsoft actually only unifies the legal basis of its services.
• Log into your Skype account from August 1st, 2015 and agree to the contract. Nothing changes for the user with the new Microsoft service contract. Visible changes are not made, rather it is a formal matter.
• More information about the email is available on the English-language Skype blog

If you still have doubts that the Skype email is spam, you can use the instructions below to analyze and recognize spam emails.