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Wednesday, August 27th, 2025

My account is restricted

I recently moved and created a new account. For some reason I’m unable to do anything with my account. As far as I know it’s fully active because I’m using WiFi the contractor set up for this message. I have no idea how to get in contact with a human who can help. I’d appreciate help being able to use my account, thanks. 

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4 days ago

For any misfortunste soul who comes across this your best bet seems to be to just complain to Xfinity tom. It might take a few dozen attempts, but eventually they’ll get sick of your comments and start actually providing customer support. Maybe. Who knows. I’ve been given numbers to their employee directory without a good reference of who I’m trying to contact (it asks you to spell the first few letters of their name) in an email that managed to both misspell my last name AND address me with a different one. 

the people here on this forum aren’t helpful. In fact, if you aren’t careful and give them the information they ask they’ll remove a method for accessing your account and call the problem fixed. They’ll ask for information you’ve already provided and is present in the conversation too pretending they’re somehow keep your information secure. It’s all a refusal to the services they are supposed to provide, and good faith on the side of the business. 

oh and if they call you while you’re driving to work they’ll tell you that you better answer next time. Even if, you know, you’re driving to work and don’t have your full account number, childhood address, bank account, social security number, names of exes, bathroom schedule, and any other esoteric information they can come up with to refuse to help you. 

and it’s all because you refuse to change a password to an account you made years ago, but back then were smart enough to go with AT&T instead because you got a good deal on a Samsung Galaxy. 

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I'm really sorry you feel that way @user_wd8ge9, I understand the frustration of repeating yourself, but if you don't want to give us the basic information of your name I do not how we can help with your issues. We are here 7 days a week and are willing and ready to help you when you are ready to give us the information needed to help. I hope you have a great rest of your day! 

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28 days ago

Good morning user_wd8ge9. Thank you for creating a post and reaching out to us here on our Xfinity Forums. I hope that everything else with your move has gone smoothly, I'm sorry that you are having trouble with accessing your account. I know it can cause issues if you are unable to access your account and use the awesome features like the Xfinity app. I would love to help out!

For an account restricted message we usually have to work with our customer security assurance team to have the account / Xfinity ID or email address restriction removed. 

Can you send us a direct message please with your name, service address and the email address or Xfinity ID you are using to access the account? 

To send a direct message, please click on the chat icon in the top-right corner of the screen, and select "Xfinity Support" to initiate a live chat. 
Click "Sign In" if necessary
Click the "direct messaging" icon or https://comca.st/3J0ir1l
Click the "New message" (pencil and paper) icon
Type "Xfinity Support" in the "To:" line and select "Xfinity Support" from the drop-down list which appears. The "Xfinity Support" graphic replaces the "To:" line
Type your message in the text area near the bottom of the window
Press Enter to send it

Visitor

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Yeah, so I’ll put it out here so people know what I’ve experienced with Comcast. Sending a DM with the information you requested led to me being asked to provide an account number I can’t easily find since my account is restricted. 

it turns out if you need a human you can get one by telling the robot you’d like to add services (don’t change, you can do that via the website easily apparently), and then choosing support. These people will get you the account information that people on this forum need despite asking you for everything else. 

unfortunately, all those people on the phone can do is transfer you to an “account security team” that’ll ask you to completely verify your account despite verifying it when you called in and bring transferred to them. From there they’ll tell you to reset your password and clear cookies and cache. Even if the app tells you that you’re logged in just fine, and even if the website says “something unexpected occurred.” The number and types of devices involved will not at all impact the likelihood of you receiving this life changing advice.

That team, despite needing your entire life story to give you this life changing advice may call you after you hang up to tell you to change your password. It may happen multiple times. They may also ask why you’re bothering them on those phone calls. I have a few incoming calls from Xfinity. 

Reaching out to the SVP publicly may or may not provide results. Who knows? I tried to be cordial but I’ve been completely disregarded as a customer. They gave me a reference number for the case with their specialist team. You can find the form to contact the SVP on Reddit. That may be your only recourse if you’re in a situation like mine.

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20 days ago

For some reason I'm expected to mark your answer as the right one? Why in the world would I do that? You people keep messing with the wrong account intentionally. Now I can't even log in using my email at all. It tells me I'll get an email to authenticate it that never comes. The corporate office asks the same [Edited: "Language"] questions the rest of you ask that you clearly ignore. What [Edited: "Language"] is the point of asking for my account number if you're not going to use it? What [Edited: "Language"] is the point of calling me with the phone number on my account if you need the address, account number, and my bathroom schedule too? What [Edited: "Language"] is the point of your existence if you're causing problems and not solving them? 

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