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Windows Live Spam IMs?

Has anyone else, recently, been getting a TON of IMs from various random addresses in the past week or two? It’s really annoying me, basically, it’s an address such as “ziopxmngeotcrwno@live.com” and the message usually has something like this:

Hey William
I would like to chat with you but I this is my friends msn.
You you can send me a msn chat request here sillyval1984@live.com
Hope we can chat

However, the messages are always:

  1. From different addresses - I’ve so far had about 50 different accounts, all from @live.com or @hotmail.com.
  2. Very similar messages - the only thing that changes is the address (like you can see above), and some of them have URLs instead.
  3. The one above is an example - there are several others I’ve been getting such as “this is my work account, can you add my personal account and we can chat?”

I have no idea how to stop them, either, which is bloody annoying.

Any ideas?