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On April 16, between 2:25 P.M. ET and 4:12 P.M. ET, the domain zoom.us was not available due to a server block by GoDaddy Registry. This block was the result of a communication error between Zoom’s domain registrar, Markmonitor, and GoDaddy Registry, which resulted in GoDaddy Registry mistakenly shutting down zoom.us domain. Zoom, Markmonitor, and GoDaddy worked quickly to identify and remove the block, which restored service to the domain zoom.us. There was no product, security or network failure at Zoom during the outage. GoDaddy and Markmonitor are working together to prevent this from happening again.

Scam?

Matt12
Explorer
Explorer

Hi everyone, 

 

is it possible that someone contacts me by email, pretending to be someone else, and then suggests that I set up zoom meeting to hack me? Is it possible for someone to access your system via a Zoom meeting?  

 

Maybe I am being paranoid! Someone contacted me related to work (I found their profile online, but I don't know if the email is legit), and was keen to speak to me about the matter online.  I tried to set up a Zoom meeting twice and they have not shown up so it's a bit strange. It is possible that they just forgot twice but anyway I thought someone might know if there were any Zoom related scams like this. 

 

Thanks in advance,   

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colegs
Community Champion | Employee
Community Champion | Employee

@Matt12 - You would have to enable the meeting to allow someone to control your system and authorize their access.  They cannot just control or hack your machine through a Zoom meeting.

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colegs
Community Champion | Employee
Community Champion | Employee

@Matt12 - You would have to enable the meeting to allow someone to control your system and authorize their access.  They cannot just control or hack your machine through a Zoom meeting.

Thank you Colegs!