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Sunday, February 18th, 2024 1:43 AM

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Comcast filed a fake spam report to blacklist my address from MailChimp. Please contact them to remove me from the blacklist.

I posted this in another help forum.  A moderator there didn't like my wording, so they edited my post and hid it without providing any, you know, customer support.

About two or three years ago, Comcast's e-mail system decided to mark e-mail notifications from a store that I've bought stuff from for 20 years as spam.  That triggered the store's mail service (MailChimp) to put my e-mail address on a blacklist.  Nobody out of dozens of people I called in phone support had any clue what was wrong, let alone what to do about it, but I lucked into finding somebody here that actually knew something about e-mail.  That guy reached out to MailChimp and got me removed from their blacklist.

And now it's happening again.  I was unable to reach anybody at MailChimp myself as they were recently acquired by Intuit, who has broken alot of their help links and installed a pretty dumb AI as their phone tree.  Please help.  All I need is my e-mail address removed from MailChimp's blacklist.  Then e-mails should start flowing again.

PS - I wish flagging actual spam actually worked.  I'm drowning in obviously robotic word salad spam every day.  But normal e-mail that I want gets randomly flagged _once_ and it goes to Defcon 1?

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9 months ago

Good evening @Turbo07, and thank you for reaching out on our Community Forums with your issues with MailChimp. I would recommend trying to reach out to our amazing Customer Security Assurance (CSA) team. They can be contacted directly at 1-888-565-4329 and their hours of operation are 8:00am - 12:00am EST, 7 days a week.

 

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I've called them.  This is the same runaround that I got last time.  I was handed off to multiple people, each asking for me to repeat my billing information over and over.  That's exactly why I came to the forum this time, because last time the phone people gave me the runaround and somebody on the forum actually helped me.  If it was possible to find my post from 2020, I would've gone directly to that person again.

The first call, they sent me to a form to see if the IPs were blocked.  It sent back an automated response that the IPs weren't blocked.

The second call, they did a "diagnostic" that turned up nothing.  They supposedly opened a ticket with tier 2 and they're supposed to call back but in my experience they never do.  So I will have to call again.

MailChimp can't decide if my e-mails are going through or being rejected as spam.  I have spam detection completely turned off.  Of course, I had it off last time too.  I have service@bigbadtoystore.com specifically listed a safe sender, also exactly like last time.  I'm also getting some e-mails from them and not others, so it's unlikely to be anything I can control because most spam rules are set on addresses and would be all or none.

I called BigBadToyStore and their customer service washed their hands of it entirely.  Pretty lousy way to treat a customer who's spent as much as I have as long as they've been in business but that's enshittification I guess.

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Hey @Turbo07 thank you for getting back to us and giving that a try. CSA as Alyssa mentioned above would be the correct place for continuing assistance. Looks like you may have filled out the form over at the CSA site under How to unblock an email address

 

I was able to locate the previous post for reference here.

 

We recommend following up with them on your specific ticket number. If you are still running into issues please let us know. 

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9 months ago

@XfinitySPAAbuse Hi.  I'm having the same e-mail problem that I had back in August 2020.  E-mails from BigBadToyStore sent through MandrillApp aren't getting through.  I _think_ I've narrowed down the trigger.  BBTS's "payment declined/expired" notification happened right before both outages.  That e-mail doesn't look any worse than the spam that I regularly receive ("bank" password, "fedex" delivery, "netflix" locked, etc) so I'm not sure why.

I've been through phone support again and I think they're stuck.  It's a job for an e-mail expert, not general tier 1 support.

I've also contacted abuse/help at Mandrill three times.  The third time they finally saw the blacklisting and said they removed me.  But I'm still not seeing e-mails so I've reached out again.

If you can work whatever magic fixed this last time, it would be greatly appreciated.

Edit:  The fourth time they removed me for real (missed something the third time).  Wish the spam filter would stop doing this though.

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9 months ago

About two or three years ago, Comcast's e-mail system decided to mark e-mail notifications from a store that I purchase from frequently as spam.  That triggered the store's mail service to put my e-mail address on a blacklist.  None of the[ Edit: Inflammatory] in tech support could figure out what happened but I lucked into finding somebody here that actually knew something about e-mail.  That guy reached out to MailChimp and got me removed from their blacklist.

And now it's happening again.  I was unable to reach anybody at MailChimp myself as their support pages are all jumbled probably due to being acquired by Intuit.  Please help.

PS - I wish the millions of e-mails that I actually flag as spam would stop as quickly as the ones that Comcast mysteriously flags on its own seemingly at random.

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Comcast filed another fake spam report to blacklist my e-mail from MailChimp

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Interesting that somebody found time to edit and hide my post but not respond or solve my problem.

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