@Gary-And-Rose0 No, no scam. Several hosts have posted on this and other hosting forums that they were contacted and had to do stupid things like open their silverware drawer to show that yes, indeed, they did have eating utensils in the utensil drawer. It was announced about a year and a half ago that they were going to start doing these video verifications.
@Jeremy274 I can't find it now, but there was another post here recently where a host was wondering the same as you. Probably one of those half-baked ideas that never gets followed through on.