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I'm really curious in what legit situation this kind of "account recovery" would be needed.

Like you forgot your email address and/or password so you can't recover you skype account via that way?

There's plenty of ways people can lose access to the attached email address: signed up with a work email, then left the company; signed up with an ISP email, then switched ISPs; email provider went out of business; Google banned your account. It's useful to have a fallback for those cases.

With little amount of information Skype requires when signing up, I think fallback option is just not feasible. If you left the company or email provider out of business - and you forgot to switch your email AND THEN you forgot your password??! Just sign up for new Skype account...

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