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flyboy2 · ‎04-21-2019

I hope they keep it blocked - I've seen a significant reduction in Spam while its blocked.

flyboy2 · ‎03-28-2019

@Again wrote: @Wire-EDM-guy wrote: If you say we,as customers, have to train the Comcast Spam to work... why is it Gmail doesn't need this customer involvement? Gmail has far more users than Xfinity Connect. So, tons are reporting spam and training Gmail's spam filters, which is why a lot of that stuff goes to spam and you don't see it. But, what one person sees as spam, another might not. Your are right about the number of users, but not the training statement. These Spam items are all: 1)using different email addresses that are created just for that burst of Spam 2) using imbedded HTML links with domains that have been very recently created and redirect to another site - this is called link obfuscation. It takes some really good programming analysis to identfy these. No matter of training in their present system is going to eliminate or identify much spam - it takes some logic that is more than repeat pattern analysis. They need to get into the contents and start scanning the raw source and look for inconsistencies like ) faked original sender email address, HTML contents that have recenty been registered less than a day or two. And any number of other things that the experts at Google and Microsoft do to keep their stuff clean. I use MS Outlook as a client to get my Comcast email. I am always amazed how the simple Outlook desktop client will identify SPAM that Comcasts lets pass thru. Comcast just isn't putting the resources into their email system to make it better, remember its free and not a revenue center for them - at least as far as I can see.

flyboy2 · ‎03-21-2019

Call Comcast and escalate to a higher level manager.

flyboy2 · ‎03-07-2019

Are you still receiving a lot of SPAM? Have you looked at the internals of the email, ie the header and HMTL links in the body. If you do, you may find that many, if not all, contain HTML redirect links that are hosted by Cloudfare.com. Here is a response I sent to Comcast after their response of my last report. Basically they are blowing me off. Suggest to others to try getting more proactive and report directly to Comcast if they find the same. Tired of the same SPAM everyday that Comcast could catch upfront. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am responding to your resolution below. I have hundreds of emails that have unknown senders and hosted links by Cloudfare.Com. Below is an analysis of the key contents of one of them – virtually all others (hundreds/thousands) have the same structure. Something needs to be done 1)Why do you allow forged senders to enter the email system Received: from dovpxy-hoc-11o.email.comcast.net ([69.252.207.20]) by dovdir4-hob-06o.email.comcast.net with LMTP id aE57AKlegVzTLAAA4xkQgg ; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 18:10:49 +0000 host 69.252.207.20 = resimta-ch2-20v.sys.comcast.net (cached) resimta-ch2-20v.sys.comcast.net is 69.252.207.20 69.252.207.20 not listed in cbl.abuseat.org 69.252.207.20 not listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net 69.252.207.20 is not an MX for dovback4-hob-21o.email.comcast.net 69.252.207.20 is not an MX for resimta-ch2-20v.sys.comcast.net 69.252.207.20 is not an MX for dovdir4-hob-06o.email.comcast.net 69.252.207.20 is not an MX for dovback4-hob-21o.email.comcast.net Possible spammer: 69.252.207.20 Host dovdir4-hob-06o.email.comcast.net (checking ip) = 96.118.19.9 96.118.19.9 not listed in cbl.abuseat.org 96.118.19.9 not listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net 69.252.207.20 is not an MX for dovdir4-hob-06o.email.comcast.net 69.252.207.20 is not an MX for dovdir4-hob-06o.email.comcast.net Looks like a forgery 2)Why do you continue to allow emails with Cloudfare hosted links to enter the system – it seems to me that each user should have the option to exclude these. Tracking link: https://hata.stufffe.us/jDhmrg-9we1LJP5PJG4lBkGFW4tIdmcAFri3gagVtji5KTarOFFhL17Zmq8y7ZV-Wn9WUomM4gafvtaIA-60rayebIrhGLVxMUU2YEXkTQ No recent reports, no history available Host hata.stufffe.us (checking ip) = 104.18.44.232 Resolves to 104.18.44.232 Routing details for 104.18.44.232 [refresh/show] Cached whois for 104.18.44.232 : abuse@cloudflare.com Using abuse net on abuse@cloudflare.com abuse net cloudflare.com = abuse@cloudflare.com Using best contacts abuse@cloudflare.com Something needs to be done to prevent these email types from propagating thru your system – allowing there entry and passage only encourages this inappropriate use of the email system. From: Comcast Customer Security Assurance - Phishing Ema [mailto:CSA_PhishingEmail@cable.comcast.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2019 5:02 PM To: Subject: Re: Phishing email (KMM50824391V16860L0KM) Customer Security Assurance Incident Number: NA0000250061000 Thank you for contacting Comcast Customer Security Assurance. We have received your report of unwanted email and have determined that as unsolicited bulk email it is “spam.” We will process this spam email accordingly. For timelier processing of spam you may do the following: From XFINITY Connect: Select the check box of the message you would like to report and click the Spam button provided in the menu bar. From an email client (e.g. Microsoft Outlook, Windows Live mail, or Mac Mail): Forward the email as an attachment to missed-spam@comcast.net. We are focused on providing a secure online experience for all of our customers. If you require additional assistance, please contact Customer Security Assurance at (888) 565-4329. We are available to assist you 6:00 am to 2:00 am ET, 7 days a week. Thank you for choosing Comcast! Sincerely, Technician Customer Security Assurance Copyright 2017. Comcast. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners. Comcast respects your privacy. For a complete description of our privacy policy, click here. Comcast One Comcast Center, 10th Floor 1701 JFK Boulevard Philadelphia, PA 19103-2838

flyboy2 · ‎02-26-2019

@lc341 wrote: I did "unsuscribe" to one and that's when the spam problem started. Never use the Unscribe option from an unknown sender - NEVER! All this does is verify a valid email address and it goes on lists and is sold and past around.

flyboy2 · ‎02-24-2019

@edwardp wrote: Since February 20, I have received a deluge of spam (14 emails, 8 of them yesterday alone), all of them being sent via mail servers in the Netherlands (.nl). I have been moving them to the Spam folder as they arrive, but Comcast is still not recognizing them. Me too, I am getting the same ones - been hit pretty hard. I wish Comcast would provide an option to not recieve emails from Foreign countries. I have been putting stuff in Spam folder for over a year - their process doesn't work.

flyboy2 · ‎02-21-2019

@ComcastAntiSpam wrote: If the patterns align, it shouldn't take 6 months. When was the last time you submitted these reports? I can try to dig a few up and take a look. They have been regulary reported into the SPAM folder every day for the last 6-9 months. The SPAM folder seems to remove them on about a weekly basis. If they are in the SPAM folder is this correct way to report them? and is that where the SPAM filter gets it info to learn?

flyboy2 · ‎02-21-2019

@ComcastAntiSpam wrote: You can mark them as "spam" and help train the spam filters, or attempt to use the filters in the webmail platform to scan the body of the message and discard them. Comcast how long does it take to train them - I've been doing this for the past 6 months on type of Spam I mentioned.

flyboy2 · ‎02-17-2019

If you believe that I have some swamp land to sell in Florida. I have been putting these emails in the Spam box for 6 months. How long does it take to train the system?

flyboy2 · ‎02-17-2019

NO - see my response on the forum

flyboy2 · ‎02-17-2019

You answered my question with a question. I,ll try again: How can I prevent emails with links hosted from Cloudfare to delivered by Comcast email system?

flyboy2 · ‎02-16-2019

Comcast have you seen this - can you answer?

flyboy2 · ‎02-13-2019

99% of the Spam I receive is associated with CLOUDFARE.COM Here is an example of the results of a Spam analyzer on a recent one: Report Spam to: Re: 96.114.154.139 (Administrator of network where email originates) To: abuse@comcast.net (Notes) Re: http://clicks.siegeab.com/xyizdhwc?doj95he5bw3q... (Administrator of network hosting website referenced in spam) To: abuse@cloudflare.com (Notes) Re: https://clicks.siegeab.com/V6RURKt1tBi?lyAoch2_... (Administrator of network hosting website referenced in spam) To: abuse@cloudflare.com (Notes) Re: https://clicks.siegeab.com/c5LLJ?h6KoqJTymCe46M... (Administrator of network hosting website referenced in spam) To: abuse@cloudflare.com (Notes) How can I prevent or reject email that uses links hosted by cloudfare?

flyboy2 · ‎02-13-2019

>My filters trap about 4-5 of them, Comcast's spam filter traps about 2-3, and the rest fall through the cracks to my Inbox. My question is ... how does Comcast's spam filtering interfere with my defined filters?< I'm pretty sure Comcasts SPAM filter processes before User Filters. So they only interfere in the sense if they catch something you wanted to have passed thru for subsequent processing. I wish User Filters were first, thus User Filters could be used to help avoid the False Positives that sometimes originate from the Comcast Spam filter. Because of this I keep the Comcast Spam filter turned off and rely on my User Filters.

flyboy2 · ‎02-09-2019

what we need to be able to do is flag by HTML on the server so it never even makes it into our inboxes... (is there a way to do this now?) Unfortunately no - I have asked numerous time to have the ability to have User Filters scan the raw source. Email is not a revenue center for Comcast so I suspect they dont put much effort into improving it.

flyboy2 · ‎01-23-2019

Thats crazy, I couldnt figure out how to insert a screen print but it wasn't there.( using Firefox). I then went to IE browser and it showed up like yours. Then back to Firefox and logged out and back in and it showed up. Beats me whats going on, but I have it now. Thanks

flyboy2 · ‎01-23-2019

Looks like a new software release came out.? I cannot find a link to user defined filter rules. Used to select wheel on far right of email screen, then Settings, and Filter Rules would be an option. It is gone?

flyboy2 · ‎01-16-2019

It would be really easy if they would allow their User Defined Spam filters to run before their general purpose one. Then you could direct the addresses you have directly to the Inbox. But unfortunately their whole Spam solution is not well designed.

flyboy2 · ‎01-15-2019

How can a request for enhancements to the User Spam Filter capability be submitted to Comcast? Presently there is no way to scan imbedded HTML statements. This severly limits the capability to weed out some of the crafty Spam emails out there. Specially I would like to reject emails with excessive length HTML statements. This is a very common practice on many of the spammers. Here is an example from one today: (XXXX=https) xxxx://pluckhumor.in.net/LrYEjWYrkd9v-u18gHhbEoA0HrqmdlvxnKLRNYBgAP0dRUuc-mXg7L8l1RKWpbW2tVdMGqhJzRZq97PzWXijTdw4j6DAbgi_i_-X9BZdfVOAe4jDjUw1JdMJgY8bNfyuwfzopsEzt4ATqOhTcALH1jTUlcAL2RuSLpuDnFkmfWGTwYmqVQtLagCpZ69CMQqC49BCFUtZ_twzlviF-4HmX-qE_1t-D2Lig3OxtR2cT3agk6Bj8WewD-c5lep-EPBfnPaf-U0SE-Ie9Ia-dnVjBBkeg7hL1pqndWBgRoRVWI8TIjRMKFbMXl1kJ0V3BJ6fzOPSmLYkzX9azRve7tEDVLO-NnbXhaXCOKh-pcOIWrEzWKqYRm7YsWLMfSBppYEPm2g_gEB6draKOqTGvLUGVr981RHj_CjtVf4YIy3tL_zrKHqglMc-bceOIQLRGOvhQ0rWVM8vz4q1YmQF_L1GlHmoyFUrAg8r_aNL2ryVH2nZuP5oMzebQCV4eQSCd6mlxGWOoLumD6POkx-Ru8dDG7mTxAVqcO7RsHn9FZIK4S4EL3rtj4aGO2vQp9KFMkydDPutuPEpRGf1bomyskGmA7b8BKHeQom9g9T6ogcVsjc A very nice capability would to be able to reject emails that contained HTML in excess of some user specified statement length.

flyboy2 · ‎12-29-2018

> I am also a 30 year Comcast customer. I'll add my experience. Since Comcast does NOTHING, I have turned off spam filtering because it interferes with filters. And, I have been adding new filters almost every day. I currently have about 50, but I have virtually stopped spam. I still get one or two a week. I ignore the sender email address entirely because they are either stolen or made up and they change. I enter the Sender/Subject, examples: Silver-Singles, zippy loan, Roofing Survey, Wells Fargo, ZenDeals, crepe erase, and then _Crepe_Erase- when they changed it, lyft, linkedin, Evite, MemberSurvey-Customer Satisfaction, etc... Then I direct them to the Spam folder. If I'm convinced that it is working correctly, I change that to Discard so that I never see them and the spam folder doesn't get too full too soon. You can't kill 'em all. Good luck.< Thats exactly what I do also. I have found this much more effective than their filter - as you said turn their filter off because its just interferes and also gets more false positives than good ones.

flyboy2 · ‎12-19-2018

You,re right - wont get them all, but will get some and its an easy thing to implement.

flyboy2 · ‎12-18-2018

Comcast should have an option to reject all email originating from foreign entities. That would be quite useful to a number of folks.

flyboy2 · ‎12-15-2018

Thanks

flyboy2 · ‎12-15-2018

Where do you find the “unsubscribe” service?

flyboy2 · ‎11-19-2018

I whole heartily support this, Digital Ocean was a source of the majority of Spam emails.

flyboy2 · ‎10-26-2018

@kt15 wrote: Flyboy2: Hoping you can help me as I'm learning as I go. For example, I see the following in the View Source: Return-Path: <bounce-mc.us7_20797027.207073-mpalmer28=comcast.net@mail61.atl31.mcdlv.net> Wondering if the following filter rule will work: Conditions Header Name: Return-Path Contains: mail61.atl31.mcdlv.net Actions Move to folder: Spam A bunch of spam has this same Return-Path, but a batch of other spam has a totally different Return-Path. It's almost as if when I set the filter, they figure out a new way in! That filter will definitely catch the ones with a Return-Path matching your contains. As you mention if they change the addresses you end up chasing your tail. Look at the other header fields of the ones you are getting (I ignore Received, too many and complicated) and see if there is something in common. For example one I have had some success with was header User-Agent: User-Agent: Mozilla/7.10 (X11; Linux i686; rv:39.1322) Gecko/201100103 Thunderbird/39.101. Filter is User-Agent contains Mozilla, contains Linux, contains Gecko None of my good email has this construct and I regularly filter a bunch using this one. Your situation and mileage may vary. Look for headers in common and try to use those rather than email addresses. Also note, you may find that a given filter will catch a lot of Spam but also traps something you want. The way arround this is to add "does not contain" email address of good email. Hope this helps.

flyboy2 · ‎10-23-2018

@kt15 wrote: We have 5 comcast accounts and all are being infiltrated with spam - at least 15-20 per day per account! I've had to set filters on each one. As soon as I've set the rules (I use "contain any"), the spammers send from a different email address (including .com and .edu). I'm at a loss as what to do. For my minor children, I've set rules about no emails regarding "CBD, Keto, Harder Longer, limp, etc." but those are still making their way in. It's obnoxious. Does anyone know if I can disable an account (but keep old emails)? I was thinking of disabling for a week to see if these spam emails stop. You can probably move all the emails into a folder. Then delete one of the emails and create a new one - then move all the stuff from the folder to the new one and then delete the rest. But before you do that consider this. Using Sender/From to eliminate Spam is not very effective for the reason you stated above. Its takes a bit more effort to create effective filters. Spend some time and examine the Spam you are receiving - use the View Source capability and see if you can find a common item in the Header of the Spams. Look at all the Header fields, Return-Path and others. Is there a common item in those. If so use a filter to catch those. Sometimes this will also cause good emails to be caught - if that is the case you can add a condition in the filter to ignore email addresses that should not be caught. A lot of work.

flyboy2 · ‎10-19-2018

I have had a comcast email address in Seattle area for 20+ years. Five years ago I purchased a winter home in Scottsdale. I have had no problem using the Seattle based comcast email whn I am in Scottsdale. I use a pop account and access it via Outlook. I can also logon with my Seattle credentials and access web mail. Something is wrong, because you should be able to use your comast email address pretty much any place on the planet. Escalate the issue to advanced technical support, the people you talk to when you first call in dont know anything and can only react to the most basic issues using scripts - they dont understand the comcast technology, you need someone higher up the technical ladder to help. Note: if you have two comcast accounts you will need to keep them separate. Dont even bother to logon to the newest account - only logon using the account with your original email.

flyboy2 · ‎10-19-2018

>I only got one spam today, and filtered it using the above solution. The emails still don't go to my spam folder, as requested, so I will keep working on that.< If your filter is instructed to move it to SPAM folder how do you know that filter is working if it does not go to SPAM? If the spam item is showing up in the Inbox the filter probably is not working if the filter action is to move it to SPAM. To test my filters I create a separate folder named with something that will identify the filter I want to associate with it. Then I have the filter move a copy of the email to that folder as well as the SPAM folder. If it shows up in my custom folder that proves that the filter is working. Later when I have debugged the filter I remove the action to move it to the custom folder and just let it be moved to SPAM. Note: if you have the Comcast Spam filtering turned on it will process and may move items to SPAM before your custom filters - this can be an area of confusion.

flyboy2 · ‎10-18-2018

From a post above >I notice the spammers rarely use ".com" or ".net," but I found a couple and don't want to filter them. We may be defenseless against those, still.< That is an excellent observation and I will share a Filter I have to stop many of these, you need to adjust this logic based on your needs, especially if you receive emails from foreign entities. The filter I am using is like this: Header: Sender/From does not contain : .com does not contain: .net does not contain .edu Just add every domain qualifier you use to the does not contain list, others like .gov and any foreign domains you use. Have the filter move them to your SPAM filter and track it for awhile to make sure its working like you expect.

flyboy2 · ‎10-17-2018

>I've added the common domains to filter the massive spam I've been getting over the past couple of months and it's done very little to help. I continue to get spam from the domains that I have filtered. I started with rejecting the emails but that didn't work, so now filtered to have them moved to my spam folder. Even that hasn't helped. I manually move them to my spam box, but the system hasn't learned which ones to automatically move. Any suggestions? You know that filtering will not stop the sender from sending the email. Its like someone knows your phone number, they can call it till you change it. The purpose of the filter is to redirect unwanted emails automatically to another location, like the SPAM folder. Also Spammers constantly change the email address so filtering by domain is usually not a good solution for a real spammer, it works best to get rid of email lists you are on, but that's usually not spam. So question a couple of questions: 1) For the domains that you are filtering is the filter working? what action is the filtering performing? If you believe it should work post a copy of the filter here for others to look at. 2) Does the spam you are trying to eliminate always use same domain within the email address?

flyboy2 · ‎10-17-2018

Thanks for the answer. Points out a really poor design in their software. User Filters should process first. Why? Then I could move the false positives that I get from their filter to my Inbox.

flyboy2 · ‎10-16-2018

>Filtering a specific sender from a given domain works fine as expected); but, how do I filter ALL senders from a given domain? I tried "@domain.com" but that did not work.< Try: Header Name "From" Contains "@domain.com" That should catch all emails that have the string "@domain.com" anywhere in the string.

flyboy2 · ‎10-09-2018

I did not know that there was an "unwanted" folder. Are you accessing your email using the Comcast Web Mail or some other access method. Let us know how you get your email?

flyboy2 · ‎10-09-2018

Does anyone know the priority of how SPAM filtering works. For example: Does the general purpose SPAM filtering provided by Comcast operate before or after user developed SPAM filters? I dont use the Comcast filter as I get too many bad hits, it takes good emails. I thought if for those I had a user filter that would move them to the Inbox and stop further processing it might solve the problem. But there is no documentation as to the order of precedence of those two filtering options?

flyboy2 · ‎10-08-2018

Just leave them in the Spam folder, they will go away automatically in about a week. Supposedly Comcast takes them from the Spam folder and tries to adjust their Spam filters. Personally I just leave them there and let them disappear on their own. Glad the filter is working for you.

flyboy2 · ‎10-08-2018

@dkingsmill wrote: I've done that and continue to receive 3 to 5 e-mails a day from this sender (for over a month), not sure what to do from here... Not sure I understand your response? But the method posted above will not prevent the Spammer from sending the email, once someone knows your email address there is no way to prevent them from using it. The above method is a way to filter (intercept) the messsage and route it to your Spam folder and keep it out of your Inbox. Does this help? Note you can post a copy of the email, include header that you are trying to get rid of and perhaps we can suggest a filter? Best way to do this is to use the View Source option and copy it into a forum response.

flyboy2 · ‎10-05-2018

You may have the SPAM filter turned on but for 90% of SPAM like you describe it will not catch them, nor will it learn about them. Why? Because if you exam the SPAM's you are receiving you will most likely find that the From sender is a different valid email address on each one - even if its a repeat subject from the day before. Because the spammers are impersonating what appears to be valid email addresses I believe that the Comcast SPAM filter does not have the level of sophistication to sort thru them. If you have the time and energy you can analize what you are receiving and create a custom filter to weed out the majority of them.

flyboy2 · ‎10-05-2018

I have the Comcast SPAM filter turned off. It is very unreliable and does not seem to operate in a predictable manner. Too say the least SPAM filtering is not Comcasts strong suit. Turn the SPAM filter off and then create your own custom filters using the capability they offer. At the least you will then know what is and is not being filtered. If you use their general purpose filter you will be required to regularly check the SPAM folder to ensure that something you want didn't get caught. This is particularly a problem (and super annoying) for people that use some other email client and do not regularly login to Web Mail where the SPAM folder resides.

flyboy2 · ‎10-03-2018

I also get an overwhelming number of spam mails from junkmailfilter.com that consistently come to my inbox and not my spam folder. I set up a filter to block emails from this domain, and it blocked ALL my incoming emails. After hours spent with varying levels of comcast help, they deleted all my filters and I started recieving emails in my inbox again. Unfortunately, they were lost in the 50 or so emails I get from junkmailfilter.com every day. I set up a filter to send emails from junkmailfilter.com to my spam folder, and now every single email I get is going to my spam folder. Somehow this domain seems to be hijacking all my emails. Do you have any suggestions? OK - here is how I do it. Using Comcast Web Mail: 1) create a customer folder, folder name will be junkmailfilter 2) look at email header of one of these emails and verify that the From field in the header contains: junkmailfilter.com 3) create a customer filter like this > Rulename: junkmailfilter >Add condition Header, Name is "From", then change to "Contains", in the open field enter " junkmailfilter.com" >Add Action, Move to Folder junkmailfilter >Add Action, Move to SPAM (maybe be called Junk in the filter setup) folder When I setup a new filter I always have the output directed both to the SPAM folder and a custom folder that iis named so I know it is coming from a specific filter. this does two things 1)lets you see if the filter is work and what is caught, and 2) if its not right you still have a copy of the email. Once you are sure that the filter is working OK you can go back in and remove the command to move it to the custom folder.

flyboy2 · ‎10-03-2018

Check out drop box, do a web search, set your self up a free account and run a couple of tests. Very useful to move and store big files.

flyboy2 · ‎10-03-2018

Check your spam filters - when you marked it, it may have added a user spam filter to your account. Go to the location in your account where user created spam filters reside and see if it got in there. If you dont know how to do that, call tech support and have them look.