Getting spam Zoom meeting

[Peter_Harris]

Our company has been getting spam Zoom invites for webinars, and because we are all on iOS, it is automatically included in our calendars, etc.

As they are valid Zoom meeting requests, even just declining these meetings is a pain, so the admin has just blocked any email from zoom.us, and told everyone to use "something else."

Is there a way to report these spam to Zoom? Zoom does not do customer support very well.

[Peter_Harris]

I agree. Each zoom call should be linked to a unique account and people should be able to unsubscribed via zoom. As for now, the company is deleting zoom meetings coming to our system, so all users are now using meets or google. 

Zoom is now a nonworking app in our company. 

[joseph1122]

We've been facing the same issue at our estate agency — constant spam Zoom invites cluttering up calendars, especially on iOS where they auto-appear. It’s disruptive and frustrating, particularly when you're trying to stay on top of client meetings or property viewings.

A few tips that helped us:

Report the Spam: You can report spam Zoom meetings via Zoom’s Trust & Safety team here: https://zoom.us/trust-form. It's not super fast, but it’s better than nothing.

Disable Calendar Auto-Add (iOS): Go to Settings > Calendar > Accounts, and disable auto-adding of invites or try using a different calendar app where you control which invites show up.

Zoom Settings: If your company owns a Zoom account, the admin can adjust invite permissions and filter which external invites get through.

Email Filtering: Instead of blocking all of zoom.us (which can backfire), try setting up specific email filters to move these to a spam folder automatically.

Hopefully Zoom improves support in this area. Until then, these small steps can help reduce the clutter.

— estate agency Ilford

[amn2201]

Peter, same here! In the last three month I got 20 Spam invitations. I tried to tell support but they just closed the ticked "has been solved? We didn't hear from you". Although it's quite easy: A simple "SPAM" Button would do at the end of each cancellation. Then this mailadress of the spammer could be blocked to use a) our emails and b) to use Zoom at all. And since support does not anything - I JUST QUIT my premium and will use Teams in future. So ... if zoom only learns if they lose money.. so it will be this way. I am out. I then will block all Zoom emails in MY systems - and so I will tell everybody "sorry, I do not use Zoom anymore" - and then they will lose even more. Because if more people react like me, maybe they will rethink their policy.. but then it's too late.

[amn2201]

I quit today. I am sick of this problem - because I have other things to do than sorting out Zoom -Spam Appointments out of my email AND calender several times each day! 

[tamiwloch]

Yes!  Zoom needs to provide someway to report these unsolicited invites.  I just started getting them a few weeks ago and now they are showing up all the time.  NOT cool that we can't report so you know who is abusing your platform.

[pfriedl]

In addition to unsubscribing and canceling, I go an extra step and add their email at mailbat_dot_info just to fill their inbox with junk. 

[Cinrog]

How do you unsubscribe from their meeting notifications and don’t you miss actual real meeting invites by unsubscribing?

[Peter_Harris]

We ask everyone, including clients not to use zoom. If they really want to use zoom, the have to email us the invite from their own email address. 

So sorry Zoom, you have failed to do what teams and google chat can do, hence this action.  

[dofrye]

I wish that would work.  These bad players change the email you are referencing every time.  Here's the model.
1. They set up one recurring webinar.
2. Promote the webinar to participants.
3. They do their first webinar.
4. They change the "Subject" and the "reply-to email" for each webinar. (This is so they circumvent the unsubscribe)
5. They do this sometimes multiple times a week.

The only way to stop it is to unsubscribe from the Zoom.us domain.  I am surprised that Zoom has not eliminated these bad players from the platform.  They could at least take the bad players we have documented and cancel their accounts.

   

[killerducks]

I have been plagued by this issue for months and reported over a dozen webinars to Zoom, but they appear to do nothing about it.  This issue is specific to Zoom. They must have a financial incentive to not fix the issue, which would be super simple to fix. A report spam link, and if more than say 2% of invites report spam, the webinar is deleted.   Anyone interested if we can get some kind of class action going?  I have wasted several hours trying to delete events, raise tickets etc, plus when my calendar gets filled with a spam webinar, it means the slot is removed from my availability for meetings. It has a financial impact.

[Peter_Harris]

I just put zoom.us on the block and delete list. People that decide to use a platform that cannot police spammers is a platform that we just ignore. 

[killerducks1]

I tried that in MS 365 and somehow, I still get events appearing in my calendar. I am not receiving any emails from Zoom. It makes me suspect that my bad actor is sending invite links from a separate new gmail.com for each new event. I have now turned off the calendar and am going to retire the email account that gets the invites....