Can a Skype account be unlisted or ex-directory?

[Complainer]

One of the family members has a Skype account that gets a significant number (44 at the moment) of fairly creepy connection requests from unknown people. I've gone through the privacy settings to see if there is any way I can prevent this, but I can't find anything. Is there some way of going 'unlisted' to stop these requests?

 

[Time]

It would appear no.

I am always getting requests from random people. The only thing to do is to block them.

 

[huskerdu]

Happens me all the time, i get loads of requests which all claim to be American military personnel in Iraq. I have no photo, and I removed all mention of personal details, like age and gender and the number of requests has dropped a lot.

 

[Complainer]

Thanks - seems very open from a privacy point of view. I did find that you're better off having a date of birth to show the user is under 16, than having no date of birth. It seems they hide users under 16 from search results.
https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA10548/what-security-do-you-have-in-place-for-under-16-year-olds

There also seems to be an alternative client skypito designed for kids - might check it out.

 

[Complainer]

Just to note that changing to DoB to show that the user is 14 had a dramatic effect - no unwanted connection requests. Maybe we should all be 14....