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Monday, February 23rd, 2026 4:48 PM

Email Spam Problems

Nearly every day I receive spam/scam/phishing emails which tell me that my automatic subscription/renewal to some service is complete (usually for hundreds of dollars), and if I didn't authorize this transaction to call some support phone number.  I usually attempt to forward these scams to some appropriate authority - provided by the company that the fake email is purporting to represent.  More often than not xfinity returns the email as non-deliverable with the following - "Your message was not delivered to its intended recipient(s) because our automated spam filtering tools recognized one or more characteristics of your message as potentially associated with spam. Our policies prohibit the transmission of spam using Comcast's platforms and services.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this message, please reach out to our Customer Security Assurance Team at 833-501-0837. The information at the top of this email will help Xfinity with any questions you may have. Thank you for being an Xfinity customer."  

My question is - If my attempting to report this is considered spam, when all I'm doing is FORWARDING an email that I already received, WHY ISN'T THE ORIGINAL CONSIDERED SPAM? 

You have got to do better!

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@user_gtsxtc I definitely understand the frustration if you are receiving spam/phishing emails and are running into an error reporting it. This link will walk you through the full options to report those emails. I believe if you are forwarding the emails, that may be where the disconnect is happening in reporting them: 

When reporting phishing emails, it is critical that you send us the email headers. Please do not forward the phishing email. Forwarding the email will remove the original headers.

Once you have copied the full message headers from the spam message, paste the header and the message into an email and send it to abuse@comcast.net with the subject line "Phishing email."


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Per instructions on the websites of the companies being spoofed in the scam emails, they request that I FORWARD the entire email to their official reporting email.  Reporting it to you (xfinity/comcast) does not guarantee that the company being spoofed in the email will also be notified.  However, I will try it your way in the future.

Official Employee

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@user_gtsxtc We appreciate your time in reaching out and I'm happy we were able to provide you the information on how to report those emails as spam. You might try emailing the official reporting email with the headers and body of the email the same as we request the email be sent to us to be sure they are aware of the scam/phishing attempts. 

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