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Saturday, March 1st, 2025 8:05 PM

Spam overloading email in box; simple spam filters not working

The normal spam filters that work on other email systems do not seem to work effectively on xfinity email.  Why is this the case?  For example, I receive duplicate emails to the following address in my regular email daily: [Edited: "Personal Information"].  This and similar emails like this are obviously not my email address so I am perplexed as to how this makes it through the spam filters that xfinity/comcast has to my email inbox when it is not my email address???  I have spent way too much time on the phone with technical support.  They did not seem to understand what I was talking about so they were unsuccessful in fixing the problem.  Can you help with this?  

(Incidentally, I've set up filters for spam that is being sent to my actual email address inbox but, these filter everything out as spam, even the legitimate emails).  

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2 months ago

It's quite simple, your email address is in the email as a BCC address (Blind Carbon Copy). I get them all the time, and of course they are undetected as SPAM by Comcast's "excellent" spam filters.

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2 months ago

van.c

Howdy! Happy to help walk through some spam filter options, unfortunately, I am not able to decipher why other spam filters on other services work more effective for you. 

  • To mark an email as spam, select the checkbox next to the message and click the Mark as Spam icon 
     
  • To report a phishing email, forward the message to missed-spam@comcast.net or abuse@comcast.net 
     
  • To set up spam filters, go to Email Settings, click Advanced Settings, and select Automatically move spam and potentially harmful messages to the Spam folder 
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