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Non Delivery email
I keep getting Non Delivery emails when I forward the many phishing emails I get to: abuse@*,spam@*, phishing@* or phish@* I call the security phone number every time this happens. Why can't the IT department change the code to accept these emails before the filter the true spam emails ??? I worked in IT over 30 years and know this logic is possible before the filter.
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plumld
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311 Messages
22 days ago
I put the same question and was eventually led to someone higher in the IT department. I found it unbelievable that a spam/phishing email forwarded to the abuse@ location, would be treated as spam/phishing.He actually told me the following, in response. Once a spam/phishing email has been forwarded to the abuse@ location and is accepted, when any more emails follow that one, if they are copies of the accepted one, they will return a non-delivery response to any of the copies, with the above explanation. As a 40+ year (retired) software engineer, I could not believe the answer! Assuming I was told the facts, this is the most ridiculous design I've ever seen. This from a 100+ billion dollar company.
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Again
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34.2K Messages
22 days ago
@LoisMax3rd @plumld
You don't forward these emails, especially when reporting to Xfinity. You copy/paste the headers along with the body of the spam mail into a new email and send to whomever you were forwarding emails too. When you forward a spam mail you are just as guilty of spamming as that email was when it came to you. This may be why you're getting the messages you do.
How do I report a spam email sent to my Comcast.net email account?
When reporting spam emails, it is critical that you send us the email headers. Please do not forward the spam email. Forwarding the email will remove the original headers.
Webmail Users
The above is from here: https://spa.xfinity.com/help/email-abuse?faq=report-spam-email
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XfinityJeffB
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20 days ago
Thank you for your post LoisMax3rd, we appreciate you and your time. I can tell you that our expert, @Again has it right. Following the steps they posted will get the info to the proper place.
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user_Joel
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11 hours ago
I have the same problem with non-delivery notices.
There are abuse-reporting instructions for some companies that tell you to forward the e-mail. I realize this doesn't forward the header. I usually forward phishing AND copy the e-mail as an attachment, just to cover everyone's requests. (I don't really want to spend time looking up each abuse department's preferences, I spend enough time waiting for acidtool.com already.) I am sometimes simultaneously reporting abuse to (a) the sender's e-mail host, (b) the recipient's host if the sender used a distribution list hosted elsewhere, and (c) the organization hosting any embedded URL links.
I'd like Comcast to check if all recipients in my outgoing message match the pattern "abuse@<domain>", deliver if so, and not tell me it wasn't delivered. I can see the argument for matching "abuse@<trusted domain>", which is more of a pain, but even covering the top 100 abuse departments would be a major improvement. Someone better educated in devious techniques could weigh in on why a spammer/phisher might take an indirect route through "abuse@<spamming domain>". I certainly don't see why Comcast would filter out "repeat" messages to the same abuse address...I figure the more messages the hosting org gets, the more likely they are to do something. (I know, how naive, but I always hope that there are software engineers trying to do the right thing :).
If there's some good reason why things don't work this way, could someone from Comcast enlighten us?
As a side note, can anyone tell me why this form seems to do really weird things when I put text between less-than and greater-then signs? It seems to often trigger deleting much of what I just wrote, it's taken me twice as long to type this as it should have!
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