pfishing sent email from xfinity.com

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@ wrote: ... I thought that if you hover over or click the sender address, then you see where it really came from. 

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Sorry, no. Scammers can hide the true source of an email completely, thanks to botnets and anonymizing email relays run by ignorant or unscrupulous persons, to name just two possibilities. Hovering over a link may not show the true destination either: see any Google search result.

If you send a paper mail, you can write whatever return address you like on the evelope. Email is the same - the from field is filled in by the sender.  Typically, normal email users set this once in their email client, however, spammers change this often to fit the spam/scam.

Thank you for your reply. I understand that people can spoof a sender address...making it look like it came from someone else. But I thought that if you hover over or click the sender address, then you see where it really came from. Is this not true?  

I learned something new here. Thank you.