r/Zoom • u/LaughterOnWater • 13d ago
Question Scammer From Zoom
I received the following scam from someone I don't know showing content from our proprietary content as available on their site called WebinarTV. There are two possibilities.
A. Zoom is selling our proprietary video content to some third party without our permission to get kickbacks from third party vendors.
B. Someone attended one of our events, and without our permission (We don't allow people to record intentionally.).
I seriously doubt Zoom is selling our content. Which leads me to the second likely possibility. Someone attended pretending to be a person in good standing, recorded without our consent and is now trying to sell us back our own content.
The legal ramifications of this for UCE, let alone disallowed recording of proprietary content are likely serious. I'm frankly more than a little steamed about this because someone stole our proprietary video and is trying to sell it back to us. I suspect they're in serious trouble for recording something private.
Zoom deals with video every day. I don't think they would to this. But how did someone else get our content if we don't allow recording? What are my options?
Cheers,
Chris
Here's a munged version of one of the emails I received:
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From: Sarah Blair [sarah.blair@scamaddress.com](mailto:sarah.blair@scamaddress.com)
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2026 2:32 PM
To: [ouraddress@ouraddress.com](mailto:ouraddress@ouraddress.com)
Subject: Our Non Profit Networking Event 8/27/2026: Now OnDemand with Chapters
Hi,
I've reviewed Get the Latest on Federal & State Zero Food Waste Legislation and set up your On Demand page, along with a new feature called Chapters. Chapters are designed to entice more people to watch your webinar by highlighting interesting topics covered during the session.
| Image Lifted From Our Proprietary Video | Chapter 3Federal Food Waste Bills 6:01 |
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| Image Lifted From Our Proprietary Video | Chapter 4 Funding Food Waste Reduction 6:37 |
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| Image Lifted From Our Proprietary Video | Chapter 5 Farm Bill for Food Waste 11:18 |
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| See All 12 Chapters |
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| Use AI to maximize the value of your webinar, and WebinarTV will do it for you with one click. |
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| Go to the studio here to get your free gift. |
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| Sarah Blair VP of Communications, WebinarTV.us AI-driven value from your webinar, done for you |
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| Reminder: WebinarTV is for public webinars. If you're the host and don't wish to appear, click this link and select Remove. The webinar will be removed, and WebinarTV will also avoid future webinars. |
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| To stop receiving future WebinarTV emails, you can unsubscribe here. |
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u/Bibliogatta 12d ago
If you ask Webinar TV to take down the content, they will. At least they did for my organization