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A fake Xfinity email says your account will be deleted, asks for your password and wants gift cards.
Xfinity’s page on phishing scams lists the signs of a fake message: urgent language, requests for personal information, unexpected links and requests for payment using gift cards. The email below is invented, and each number is one of the signs.
Example
Dear customer,
Your Xfinity account will be deleted today.
To keep your service, confirm your password and Social Security number at the link below.
You can also pay your balance with gift cards. Send us the card numbers.
The button says xfinity.com/account
The sender's address does not end in comcast.net or xfinity.com.
Xfinity says to confirm a message is real by checking that the sender's address ends in @comcast.net or @xfinity.com, and lists addresses that don't end in either as a sign of a fake.
Urgent language that says your account will be deleted.
Xfinity lists urgent language like "Your account will be deleted" or "Immediate action required" as a sign of a fake.
A request for your password and Social Security number.
Xfinity lists requests for personal information such as your password, Social Security number or payment details, and says it will never ask for password information through text, chat or email.
A request for payment with gift cards.
Xfinity lists requests for payment using gift cards as a sign of a fake, and says it will not ask you to pay using a specific payment method such as merchant gift cards or wire transfer.
A button that says xfinity.com and goes somewhere else.
Xfinity lists unexpected attachments or links, especially if you weren't expecting a message from Xfinity, and says the correct address for Xfinity is xfinity.com.
From Xfinity Support: Phishing scams, read 8 November 2026.
From Xfinity Support: Protecting yourself from fraud, read 8 November 2026.
Read the sender's address from the right, because the last two parts say who owns it.
Anyone can put “Xfinity” in front of an address. The part to read is the domain, after the @ in a sender or after the https:// in a link. Read it from the right: the last two parts name the owner, and everything in front of them is only a label the owner chose. Xfinity says the best way to tell if an email or text message was sent by Xfinity is by looking at the sending address, and that a real one ends in @comcast.net or @xfinity.com. If you read your mail in Xfinity’s webmail, it says you will also see its Verified Email logo next to a real message. Its page does not say what a mail app other than its webmail shows.
Read the domain from the right
www.xfinity.com
From XfinityOwned by xfinity.com. Xfinity says the correct address for Xfinity is xfinity.com.
xfinity.com.account-keep.example
Not from XfinityOwned by account-keep.example. xfinity.com is only a label in front of it.
xfinity-bill-center.example
Not from XfinityOwned by xfinity-bill-center.example. The name has Xfinity in it, but the owner is someone else and the address does not end in comcast.net or xfinity.com.
From Xfinity Support: Phishing scams, read 8 November 2026.
From Xfinity Support: Protecting yourself from fraud, read 8 November 2026.
From Xfinity Support: Xfinity Verified Email, read 8 November 2026.
Xfinity says it will never ask for payment information by email, and does not take gift cards.
Xfinity’s two support pages give short rules for the emails, texts and calls that use its name. A fake deletion notice breaks at least one of them.
| Question | What Xfinity says | What a fake deletion notice does |
|---|---|---|
| Will Xfinity ask for my password? | What Xfinity saysXfinity says it will never ask you for password information over the phone, or through text, chat or email. | What a fake deletion notice doesAsks you to confirm your password. |
| Will Xfinity ask for billing information by email? | What Xfinity saysXfinity says it will never ask for billing or payment information through email. | What a fake deletion notice doesAsks for payment details at a link. |
| Will Xfinity take gift cards? | What Xfinity saysXfinity says it will not ask you to pay using a specific payment method such as merchant gift cards or wire transfer, and does not accept payments with gift cards from another company. | What a fake deletion notice doesAsks you to send gift card numbers. |
| Will Xfinity ask me to prepay for free service? | What Xfinity saysXfinity says it will never ask you to prepay for multiple months of service in exchange for free service. | What a fake deletion notice doesOffers free months if you prepay. |
| Will Xfinity ask for a verification code? | What Xfinity saysXfinity says never to share a verification code with anyone. | What a fake deletion notice doesAsks you to read back a code. |
From Xfinity Support: Phishing scams, read 8 November 2026.
From Xfinity Support: Protecting yourself from fraud, read 8 November 2026.
To check an Xfinity bill message, check your balance yourself instead of paying from the message.
Xfinity says that if you get an unexpected call, text or email asking you to pay your bill, you should check your account balance first. It also says that if you are unsure whether the person on the line is an authorized Xfinity representative, you should hang up and call 1-800-XFINITY.
How to check a bill message that says it is from Xfinity
- Check the address
Does it end in comcast.net or xfinity.com?
Xfinity says to check that the sender's address ends in @comcast.net or @xfinity.com.
- Check your balance
Look at your own account first.
Xfinity says to check your account balance first if an unexpected message asks you to pay your bill.
- Call 1-800-XFINITY
Hang up and call if you are unsure.
Xfinity says to hang up and call 1-800-XFINITY if you are unsure whether the person on the line is an authorized representative.
From Xfinity Support: Protecting yourself from fraud, read 8 November 2026.
Five steps tell you whether a Xfinity email is real without clicking anything.
- Leave the button, every link and every attachment alone. Xfinity lists unexpected attachments or links, especially if you weren’t expecting a message from Xfinity, as a warning sign.
- Read the sender’s actual address from the right, as in the picture above. Xfinity says a real one ends in comcast.net or xfinity.com.
- Check your account balance yourself before you pay anything. If a caller leaves you unsure, Xfinity says to hang up and call 1-800-XFINITY.
- Paste the email into the checker at the top of this page for a second read.
- Copy the email and its headers into a new email and send it to abuse@comcast.net. Xfinity says not to forward the message, and to copy and paste it instead. In Gmail you can also choose More next to Reply, then Report phishing.
Steps from Xfinity Support: Phishing scams, read 8 November 2026.
Steps from Xfinity Support: Xfinity Verified Email, read 8 November 2026.
Steps from Gmail Help: Avoid & report phishing emails, read 8 November 2026.
If you responded to a fake Xfinity email, Xfinity says to alert your bank or credit card company right away.
Xfinity’s pages have no steps for a click on its own. For people who responded, it says to immediately alert your bank and your credit card company, and if you think you were scammed, to file a report with the Federal Trade Commission and visit consumer.gov/idtheft to learn how to protect yourself from identity theft. It warns that these scams can help someone steal your identity, get into your email account and see your personal information.
What to do depends on what you did
You only read it.
Copy it, with its headers, into a new email to abuse@comcast.net.
You clicked, or opened an attachment.
Xfinity's pages give no steps for a click alone. If something may have downloaded, update your computer's security software and run a scan.
You responded or gave details.
Alert your bank and your credit card company at once. File a report with the FTC and follow the steps at IdentityTheft.gov for what you shared.
From Xfinity Support: Phishing scams, read 8 November 2026.
From Xfinity Support: Protecting yourself from fraud, read 8 November 2026.
From FTC Consumer Advice: What To Do if You Were Scammed, read 8 November 2026.
From FTC Consumer Advice: How To Recognize and Avoid Phishing Scams, read 8 November 2026.
The same checks work on other phone and cable bills.
A billing notice can borrow the name of any provider. The guide to fake AT&T emails covers a past-due bill with a zip file, and the guide to fake Verizon emails covers a request for your account details. The holiday scam emails guide puts the kinds side by side.
These are the questions people ask next.
How can I tell a real Xfinity email from a fake one?
Xfinity says the best way is to look at the sending address. It lists a misspelled web address, or an email address that doesn't end in comcast.net or xfinity.com, as a sign of a fake. It also lists urgent language like "Your account will be deleted" or "Immediate action required", requests for your password, Social Security number or payment details, unexpected attachments or links, and requests for payment using gift cards.
What does Xfinity say it will never ask for?
Xfinity says it will never ask you for password information over the phone, or through text, chat or email, and will never ask for billing or payment information through email. It also says it will never ask you to prepay for multiple months of service in exchange for free service, and that you should never share a verification code with anyone.
Will Xfinity take gift cards?
No. Xfinity says it will not ask you to pay using a specific payment method such as merchant gift cards or wire transfer, and that it does not accept payments with gift cards from another company.
Where do I report a fake Xfinity email?
Xfinity says to copy the email and its headers into a new email, not to forward the message, and to send it to Xfinity's abuse team at abuse@comcast.net. It also says to report spam to ftc.gov/complaint. In Gmail you can also choose More next to Reply, then Report phishing.
What is the Xfinity Verified Email logo?
Xfinity says the logo shows in your webmail inbox next to any email sent from a Comcast or Xfinity source, and in the upper left of the email body, and that when you see it you can trust the message came from Xfinity. Its page does not say anything about other mail apps. If a suspicious email lacks the logo, it says not to click any links.
What if I responded to a fake email?
Xfinity says that if you responded to a fraudulent email, you should immediately alert your bank and your credit card company. If you think you were scammed, it says to file a report with the Federal Trade Commission, and to visit consumer.gov/idtheft to learn how to protect yourself from identity theft.
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