Zoom Auto-Registering My Email for Unwanted Webinars

Hello, and thank you for reaching out to the Zoom Community — and yes, the irony of receiving a "Video Surveillance ROI" email is not on us! 

We completely understand how frustrating this is, especially when unwanted calendar events start cluttering your schedule and confusing your colleagues. Let's break down what's likely happening and what you can do about it.

🔍 What's Likely Going On

Based on what you've described, this is unlikely to be a Zoom account settings issue.  The suspicious reply-to address (dadoyl@boardcast.live) is a significant red flag — legitimate Zoom webinar confirmation emails are sent from Zoom-owned domains, and while webinar organizers can sometimes customize email content, a third-party reply-to domain like that is not typical of a legitimate Zoom-hosted webinar. 

The most probable explanations are: 

• Your email address is on a marketing list that someone is using to register attendees without consent
• Someone is intentionally registering your address for these webinars
• A phishing or spam campaign is exploiting Zoom's webinar registration system to appear legitimate

✅ What You Can Do

On the Zoom side:

• There is no global "remove my email from all webinar registrations" setting in your Zoom account, because webinar registrations are managed by individual webinar hosts — not centrally by Zoom. 
• If the emails appear to be abusing Zoom's branding or platform, report them to Zoom's Trust & Safety team for abusive behavior or phishing. Include the full email headers and the suspicious reply-to domain when submitting your report. 

On the Gmail/email side:

• Mark the emails as spam in Gmail to help Google's filters learn to block similar messages. 
• Block the sender or create a Gmail filter matching the sender address, the reply-to domain (boardcast.live), or a recurring subject line keyword to automatically delete or archive future messages. 

On the Google Calendar side:

• Open Google Calendar → Settings → Event settings
• Change "Add invitations to my calendar" to either: 
  • "Only if the sender is known", or
  • "When I respond to the invitation in email" (the most restrictive option)
• Also consider turning off "Events from Gmail" if you don't want invitation emails automatically creating calendar entries 
• Google also allows you to report suspicious calendar invitations as spam directly from the calendar interface 

📋 Recommended Next Steps

1. Mark the most recent email as spam in Gmail and block the sender domain
2. Update your Google Calendar settings to restrict automatic event additions
3. Report the abuse to Zoom's Trust & Safety team with the full email headers
4. If you'd like help verifying whether these emails are genuinely sent through Zoom or are spoofed, you can open one of the emails in Gmail, click "Show original", and share the headers (redacted if needed) with the support team for analysis 

Hi, 7 months ago this was a “we are looking to resolve this”.

Yes it is marketers using unsolicited emails to run invites but:

They’re using throwaway emails

• how does Zoom allow unregistered Zoom accounts to mass mail large mailing lists.

• If these accounts are legitimate accounts on Zoom, why has Zoom not taken steps to close these accounts?
• there is still no “report spam” option on an invite (gotowebinar does this making it easier for them to respond quicker than the lengthy trust report your team make us fill out)

As a zoom room subscriber I cannot fathom why you make it the receivers responsibility to block these accounts. Creating blocklists don’t work, they change the email and then send an “UPDATE” which then is another email address to counter.

Marking them as spam is also useless because - again - they just create a new email.

At some stage, in this AI detection age - it should be relatively straightforward for zoom to organize a pre-filter that doesn’t allow webinar invites to go out under unverified emails, and even for “small room” webinars to limit mailing lists being used if they don’t own a webinar account.

It should not be that difficult on the zoom server side but the past few weeks have returned the annoyance that goes back to a complaint I raised 7 months ago - and mind you they started with gotowebinar but found zoom a lot easier to keep their webinar active.