Comcast wants Alternate e-mail address?

[Sicnarf1021]

I have three e-mail identities. For whatever reason in the last several weeks xfinty hasn't rembered my password and I have to enter it BUT when I do it keeps wanting an alsternate e-mail addy. or cell number.

When I attempt to put in my contact info it tells me "it's already in use". It does this on my alternate identities.

Can I link my alternate ID's to my main ID? If so how?

[Latoque]

What you are seeing is Comcast prompting you to provide an alternate means of contacting you in the event your account were to be compromised.  You can give them either a cell phone number or another, non-Comcast, email address.  A lot of internet entities are using two-factor authentication now, and that's what this is.  Were you trying to use one Comcast address as the alternate for another?

Just to add--------if you want online access to your Social Security account, you have to have a cell phone capable of texting.  No cell  phone----no access.

[Sicnarf1021]

Thanks for the reply but that's not a solution to my problem.

Do you think that Comcast is now forcing it's users with more than one e-mail identity

to purchase additional cell phones so they can have another e-mail  account?

Don't know what country you're talking about for Social Security, but ,I can get into my

U.S. Social Security account without a cell phone number just need my user name and password.

Can you answer my original question?

Is there a way to link ALL 3 of my accounts to one "emergency" e-mail and cell phone number?

[Latoque]

As for Social Security, see this-----------they just haven't gotten around to you yet

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/08/social-security-administration-now-requires-two-factor-authentica...

Yoiu need to clarify-----do you mean you want to use the same alternate email address for 3 Comcast accounts, or accounts from other email providers or what?

[Sicnarf1021]

Yes I want to use the same alternate  e-mail address for ALL three of my Comcast  e-mail addresses.

For e-mail address "A" I entered my alternate e-mail and it was accepted.

But, when I went to my other Comcast e-mail addresses "B" & "C", I tried using the same

alternate e-mail address but was told "...is being used, enter another."

As an aside about social security and cell phones.

Thanks for the heads up. I think I'll increase my positions in AT&T and Verizon.

The Obama phones should fly out the door.

[Latoque]

OK from what you describe, no----you cannot use the same alternate address for all three accounts.  This is the way of email security these days.  I have 11 email accounts right now.  4 of them are Comcast accounts, and all 4 use a different email address from another provider.  They do this to prevent you from "daisy-chaining" accounts using the same email address.  If you want a good read, look at this to see how daisy-chaining played a huge role in this guy's digital life being destroyed-----------------------

http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/6/3224597/mat-honan-hacked-apple-icloud-google-twitter