CallerID showed "Comcast 800-266-2278." Indian-accented guy said he was "Mark from Xfinity Comcast." He asked for me by my name. I have Xfinity. But he said "you have your firewall settings turned too low and you have 8 or 9 wifi users logged on right now." He then started to tell me to log into some weird website to access my modem. I told him that I have an ethernet mode that uses 192.168.x.x to login. He said "okay" and promptly hung-up. The worrying thing about this scam call was that he knew my name.

March 19, 2026

Pretend to be Xfinity

January 12, 2026

FAKE Comcast impersonation scam by criminals phoning from the Philippines. This is a fake Comcast (or AT&T DirecTV, Spectrum, Dish Network) scam by Puta'ng Ina Ka criminals calling from the Philippines to steal your credit card, Social Security number, and personal identity data. The scam may begin with a recorded message speaking English generated using text-to-speech translation software to disguise the origin of this Philippines scam. The message may say: "You can avail up to 50% discount on your Xfinity bills. Your promo code is..." or "I'm calling you from Comcast. This call is to let you know that your existing package with us has been qualified for 50% off along with some free upgrades." The Filipino scammer impersonates Comcast, AT&T, Spectrum, or Dish Network and says either your television/Internet service will be suspended due to unpaid fees, or they offer fake sales promotions, or they offer a service upgrade for a small fee, or they are in the returns department and you owe them money for equipment that you have not returned back to them. The fake promotion usually is a special low rate for a 2-year or 3-year subscription, but you have to prepay $200 to $600 for the first 2 to 8 months in advance, and then the scammer asks for your credit card number or asks you to pay with prepaid eBay, Amazon, Google, or Best Buy gift cards or debit cards, giving the fake excuse that paying with a prepaid card is "safer" than using a credit card. Prepaid cards are less traceable than credit card transactions so they are actually safer for the scammer. Some scammers also ask for your Social Security number "for verification purposes". If the scammer thinks you are really gullible, he may bait you even more by telling you that he will send a fake ACH "rebate" payment to your bank as a way to steal your bank account/routing number before telling you to buy prepaid debit/gift cards. Once the scammers obtain prepaid debit/gift card numbers from you, the victim, they transfer them to a group of US-based "runners," who liquidate and launder funds, either by buying resellable goods online or selling the gift cards via gift card resale sites to convert the gift cards to cash. Or the scammer says your Comcast service is going to be suspended due to a fake unpaid bill and again asks for your credit card number. About 35% of North America scam calls come from India, 30% from Philippines, 30% from China/Myanmar. Foreign scammers run thousands of fraud, extortion, money laundering scams every day such as posing as a fake pharmacy, fake Social Security officer saying your benefits are suspended, IRS officer collecting on fake unpaid back taxes, debt collector threatening you for fake unpaid bills, fake bank/financial/FedEx/UPS/DHL scams, posing as utility/phone/internet companies, pretending to offer fake health insurance, car warranty, student loan forgiveness, credit card and debt consolidation services, posing as Amazon to falsely say an unauthorized purchase was made to your credit card, posing as Microsoft/Dell/HP/Apple to say your account has been hacked or they detected a virus on your computer, fake "we are refunding your money" or "your account has been auto-debited" scams, fake Google/Alexa listing scams, fake solar panel and home purchase offers, fake fundraisers asking for donations, fake phone surveys, and the scammers try to steal your financial and personal data. Indian scammers often rotate through fake tech support, subscription auto-renewal, and fake pharmacy scams on the same day. Filipino scammers run many loan and tax/debt relief, Social Security and Medicare identity theft, auto/home/health/life insurance, and fake charity donation scams. Scammers use disposable VoIP phone numbers (e.g. MagicJack) and telecom software to spoof fake names and numbers on Caller ID. Scammers spoof thousands of fake 8xx toll-free numbers. CID is useless with scam calls unless the scam asks you to phone them back. CID area codes are never the origin of scam calls since scams use spoofed CID numbers from across the US/Canada, numbers belonging to unsuspecting people, invalid area codes, and fake foreign country CID numbers; e.g. fake women crying "help me" emergency scams spoof Mexico and Middle East CID numbers. Scammers often spoof the actual name and number of businesses such as banks to trick you into thinking the call is valid. How can you avoid being scammed by phone calls? NEVER trust any unsolicited caller who: sells something (most unsolicited calls are scams so your odds of saving money are very poor); asks for your Medicare or Social Security number; offers debt relief, loan services, Medicare assistance (people who are old or desperate in debt often fall for scams); offers a free gift/reward; threatens you with arrest/lawsuit; asks you to access a website, download a file, wire transfer money or buy prepaid debit/gift cards; claims your account is frozen or has suspicious activity; says a subscription is refunded or auto-renewed/auto-debited; and all recorded messages. Recordings are far more likely to be malicious scams and not just telemarketer spam. All unsolicited callers with foreign accents, usually Indian or Filipino, are mostly scams. No other countries are infested with phone room sweatshops filled with criminals. Most Filipino scammers speak better English than Indian scammers. Filipinos speak English with a subtle accent that may sound Hispanic. To hide their foreign origin, some India scammers use non-Indians in their phone room. Scams often falsely say that you previously contacted them or visited their website. Indian scammers play fake Amazon recordings. Amazon account updates are emailed, not robo-dialed. Many banks use automated fraud alert calls to confirm a suspicious purchase, but always call the number printed on your credit card to verify if the fraud alert is real or fake. Scammers impersonate phone/cable/internet companies, offering fake discounts or service upgrades. Indians impersonate the IRS and Social Security Administration. The IRS/SSA never make unsolicited calls and never threaten to arrest you; they initiate contact via postal mail. Real lawsuits are not phoned in, especially not using recorded threats lacking details; legal notices are mailed/couriered. The police, FBI, DEA never phone to threaten arrest; they show up in person with a warrant. Scammers try to gain your trust by saying your name when they call; your name, address, birthday are public data. Many scammers, especially female Filipinas, use "romance scam" tactics of sounding really friendly as if they are your best friend or lover to try to gain your affection and trust, hoping that you let your guard down so they can easily steal your identity and money. Scammers often play recordings speaking English, Spanish, or Chinese that is easily generated using text-to-speech translation AI software to disguise the origin of their overseas phone room. Some speech synthesis sound robotic, but most AI speech sound very realistic. Scammers often use interactive voice response (IVR) AI/NLP software that combines voice recognition with artificial intelligence, speaks English with American voices, and responds based on your replies. IVR calls begin with: "This is fake_name, I am a fake_job_title on a recorded line, can you hear me okay?"; or "Hi, how are you doing today?"; or "Hello? Are you there?"; or "Hi, may I speak to your_name?" IVR quickly asks you a short question to elicit a yes/no reply so it hangs up if it encounters voicemail. One myth is that saying "yes" to IVR lets scammers use your voice sample for other scams. IVR understands basic replies and yes/no answers. To test for IVR, ask "How is the weather there?" since IVR cannot answer complex questions. IVR usually transfers you to the scammer, but some scams entirely use IVR with the robot asking for your credit card or SSN. Phone/email scams share two common traits: the CID name/number and the "From:" header on emails are easily faked, and the intent of scam calls is malicious just as file attachments and website links on scam emails are harmful. Scams snowball for many victims. If your personal/financial data are stolen, either by being scammed, visiting a malicious website, or by a previous data breach of a business server that stores your data, then your data gets sold by scammers on the dark web who will see you as fresh meat and prey on you even more. This is why some receive 40+ scam calls everyday while others get only 0 to 2 calls per week. If you provide your personal data to a phone scammer, lured by 80%-discounted fake drugs or fake loan and debt services, you receive even more phone scams and identity theft can take years to repair. Scammers often shout profanities at you. Google "Hindi swear words" and memorize some favorites, e.g. call him "Randi Ka Beta" (son of whore) or call her "Randi Ka Betty" (daughter of whore). Scammers ignore the National Do-Not-Call Registry. Asking scammers to stop calling is useless. Scam recordings often tell you to press a keypad number to be placed on their Do-Not-Call list or to unsubscribe from their scam texts/emails, but those keypad commands are fake and they say that just to sound legit. Scammers often provide a toll-free callback number to look like a real business, but they regularly shed old callback numbers so you can never reach the scammers once you have realized that you were scammed. Scammers tell you their callback number just to gain your trust long enough to steal your identity and money and then they frequently switch to using new callback numbers. You do these scammers a favor by quickly hanging up. YOU SHOULD SCAMBAIT ALL SCAMMERS - slowly drag scammers along on the phone call, provide fake personal and financial data (16 random digits starting with 4 for Visa, 5 for MasterCard), ask them to speak louder and repeat what they said to waste their time and energy.

December 11, 2025

Called my cell phone. Asked for someone else. When I asked who was calling, he asked if I was the other person. When I said no, he told me it was none of my d@mn business! So I let him have it and he hung up.

December 3, 2025

Unknown

August 25, 2025

Possibly a scam or spoofed number

July 10, 2025

don't pick it up

April 10, 2025

Caller stated he is calling from Comcast Xfinity, and wants to check the speed of my internet connection to make sure it was working correctly. In order to test he would need access to my computer. I declined as this is a known scam that aims to collect data from your computer and/or install software to collect users ID's and passwords. Xfinity employees no longer identify "Comcast Xfinity" nor do they check internet speeds by accessing their customer's computers. There's an application on the Xfinity site that allows customers to do thi on their own.

November 8, 2024

COMCAST

November 16, 2022

Customer Service Callback

September 27, 2022

Doorbell Issues

September 18, 2022

Called me back

September 11, 2022

Please accept this call

July 18, 2022

Spam numbercop

July 3, 2022

Not spam

April 27, 2022

Enough said

March 4, 2022

Really Xfinity!

January 29, 2022

Allow call

January 13, 2022

Comcast

January 12, 2022

Xfinity return call

January 5, 2022

Need to get these calls!

December 30, 2021

Look like a threat

December 29, 2021

Allow call

December 28, 2021

This was Comcast

December 23, 2021

Xfinity I’m getting internet and new landline

December 17, 2021

Ok

December 14, 2021

ALLOW

November 27, 2021

Xfinity

November 18, 2021

Callback Line

October 19, 2021

Help with my phone bill

October 7, 2021

Local phone number for Comcast/xfinity has never worked and no new number is given. Very poor way to do business.

October 4, 2021

Call back

October 4, 2021

Allowed

September 29, 2021

This is a legitimate call, thanks for letting it thru.

September 15, 2021

We don’t have Comcast

September 3, 2021

Scam

July 29, 2021

Do not block

July 22, 2021

Computer troubleshooting

July 12, 2021

Spam call they say call from Comcast but is not they are’s scammer

July 1, 2021

Cable TV

June 22, 2021

Allow all phone calls from Comcast

June 17, 2021

Allow Comcast and XFINITY calls

June 14, 2021

TV SERVICE

June 12, 2021

Always allow - do not screen

June 4, 2021

Comcast Tech support when I don’t have Comcast

May 14, 2021

When I pause robocall - I mean it to be paused!!!!! Do not intercept a phone call when you are paused!!!!!!

May 3, 2021

Always allow

April 29, 2021

do not block

April 22, 2021

Friend calling on a different phone

April 20, 2021

Please do not block this call

April 14, 2021

Comcast

April 11, 2021

Received 2 calls within 30 minutes on this exact same number. One said they were Social security, the other said they were Comcast. Looks like it's a spoofed number.

April 8, 2021

Allow

April 8, 2021

Comcast

April 5, 2021

Always Allow

April 2, 2021

Good quality sound

March 30, 2021

Have to wait for technician

March 29, 2021

Return call from provider

March 29, 2021

cable company

March 29, 2021

Missed an important phone call

March 10, 2021

Let the call thru.

March 7, 2021

Xfinity Support

March 7, 2021

Call back support

March 6, 2021

tech support

March 4, 2021

Comcast CSR

March 3, 2021

Trouble-shooting my TV and Internet.

March 3, 2021

Used 2/22/21

February 22, 2021

Allow

February 21, 2021

Not ComCast Customers

February 20, 2021

Do not have and don’t want

February 19, 2021

Not spam!

February 12, 2021

Help Department

February 10, 2021

Agent fi

February 7, 2021

Stop blocking this phone call is in my contacts

February 5, 2021

Tech Support

January 31, 2021

cell phone

January 29, 2021

I paused your service and you still blocked. I don’t think that should happen.

January 29, 2021

Allow

January 19, 2021

Let it go through

January 9, 2021

Xfinity, formerly known as Comcast, is not a spam caller

December 28, 2020

Please allow this caller

December 15, 2020

The technician hung up the minute I picked up after one ring???

December 11, 2020

900

December 5, 2020

Trying to get your router to hack your computer

December 3, 2020

Scammer

December 3, 2020

Call spoof

November 27, 2020

I cannot pick up this call due To your service. Crazy!

November 19, 2020

Have Verizon Fios.

November 18, 2020

Tech support

November 2, 2020

Continue to allow

October 31, 2020

Allow Allow D**N IT Allow - you keep cutting me off. Does not ring through!!!’n

October 28, 2020

Expected tech support call

October 28, 2020

Follow up for tech services call

October 23, 2020

Do not block

October 9, 2020

Allow this call. Canceling Cable

October 9, 2020

This might be a valid Comcast call. But if you receive an unsolicited call from someone who says he is with Comcast and telling you that your internet connection has problems or your computer has been hacked or infected with a virus, then it is a SCAM CALL! This fake Comcast technical support scam by criminals phoning from India calls to tell you either that they are receiving alerts from your computer showing errors, they noticed someone is trying to steal your identity, your firewall security has been breached and they noticed suspicious activity on your computer, they noticed a hacking attempt on your computer, your Comcast account has an unpaid past due amount, or your internet connection has problems. Unless you recently contacted Comcast about a very specific problem, ALL unsolicited phone calls that you receive from Comcast, Microsoft, Dell, HP, or Apple Support are scams that either say your computer has a problem that requires you giving them your credit card, or that your computer has a virus and they will tell you to use a browser to visit a ultraviewer.net, cbttr.com, gotoassist.com, or fastsupport.com website and enter a code that lets the scammer take control of your computer and then they install their own real ransomware virus that freezes your computer and these scammers then force you to give them your credit card number to unfreeze your infected computer. More than 80% of North America scam phone calls come from India scammers who operate hundreds of fraud, extortion, and money laundering scams every day such as posing as a fake pharmacy, fake Social Security officer saying your benefits are suspended, IRS officer collecting on fake unpaid back taxes, debt collector threatening you for fake unpaid bills, fake bank/financial/Fedex/UPS/DHL scams, pretending to offer fake health insurance, car warranty, student loan forgiveness, credit card and debt consolidation services, posing as Amazon to falsely say an unauthorized purchase was made to your credit card or your Prime membership was auto-debited from your bank, posing as Microsoft/Dell/HP/Apple to say your account has been hacked or they detected a virus on your computer, fake "we are refunding your money" or "your account has been auto-debited" scams, fake Google/Alexa listing and work-from-home scams, posing as an electric utility, Verizon, AT&T, or Comcast to say your service is suspended, fake solar panel and home purchase offers, fake fundraisers asking for donations, fake phone surveys, and the scammers try to steal your credit card, bank account/routing number, Social Security number, and personal information. A India call center may rotate through a fake Social Security, subscription auto-renewal, pharmacy, and credit card offer scam during one week. Philippines scammers account for about 15% of scam calls. Scammers use disposable VoIP phone numbers (e.g. MagicJack devices) or they spoof fake names and numbers on Caller ID. Anyone can use telecom software to phone with a fake CID name and number. India scammers spoof thousands of fake 8xx toll-free numbers. CID is useless with scam calls unless the scam asks you to phone them back. CID area codes are never the origin of scam calls since scams use spoofed CID numbers from across the US and Canada, numbers belonging to unsuspecting people, invalid area codes, and fake foreign country CID numbers; e.g. fake women crying "help me" emergency scams from India spoof Mexico and Middle East CID numbers. Scammers often spoof the actual phone numbers of businesses such as Apple, Verizon, and banks to trick you into thinking the call is valid. How can you avoid being scammed by phone calls? NEVER trust any unsolicited caller who sells something (most unsolicited calls are scams so your odds of saving money are very poor); asks for your Social Security number; offers a free gift or reward; threatens you with arrest/lawsuit or says you need to reply back soon (pressure tactic); asks you to access a website, download a file, wire transfer money or buy prepaid debit/gift cards; claims suspicious activity on your account; says your subscription is being refunded or auto-renewed/auto-debited; and all pre-recorded messages. Recordings are far more likely to be malicious scams and not just telemarketer spam. All unsolicited callers with foreign accents, usually Indian or Filipino, are mostly scams. Filipino scammers tend to speak better English than Indian scammers. Many Filipinos pronounce English with a subtle accent having a slight trill. Scams often say that you inquired about a job, insurance, social security benefits, or that you previously contacted them or visited their website. A common India phone scam uses a fake Amazon recording about a purchase of an iPhone, but Amazon never robo-dials and Amazon account updates are emailed. Many banks use automated fraud alert calls to confirm a suspicious purchase, but always verify the number that the recording tells you to phone or just call the number printed on your credit card. Some India scams ask for your credit card for purchase of their fake product or service. The scammer calls you back one day later to say their credit card machine is broken, so you must wire transfer the payment to them. After you have wired the money to them, they still overcharge your credit card after they change phone numbers, so they rob you twice before disappearing. Wire transfers and prepaid debit cards laundered through foreign bank accounts are untraceable. Scammers try to gain your trust by saying your name when they call, but their autodialer automatically displays your name or says your name in a recording when your number is dialed using phone databases that list millions of names and addresses. Scammers often call using an initial recording speaking English, Spanish, or Chinese that is easily generated using text-to-speech translation software to disguise the origin of their India phone room. Some speech synthesis software sound robotic, but others sound natural. To hide their foreign accents, some India scammers use non-Indians in their phone room. India scammers often use interactive voice response (IVR) robotic software that combines voice recognition with artificial intelligence, speaks English with American voices, and responds based on your replies. IVR calls begin with: "Hi, this is fake_name, I am a fake_job_title on a recorded line, can you hear me okay?"; or "Hi, this is fake_name, how are you doing today?"; or "Hello? (pause) Are you there?"; or "Hi, may I speak to your_name?" IVR quickly asks you a short question to elicit a yes/no reply so it hangs up if it encounters voicemail. IVR robots understand basic replies and yes/no answers. To test for IVR, ask "How is the weather over there?" since IVR cannot answer complex questions and it keeps talking if you interrupt it in mid-sentence. IVR usually transfers you to the scammer, but some scams entirely use IVR with the robot asking for your credit card or SSN. A common myth is IVR calls record you saying "yes" so scammers can authorize purchases just using your "yes" voice, but scammers need more than just a recorded "yes" from you - credit cards and SSN. Phone/email scams share two common traits: the CID name/number and the "From:" header on emails are easily faked, and the intent of scam calls is malicious just as file attachments and website links on scam emails are harmful. Scams snowball for many victims. If your personal/financial data are stolen, either by being scammed, visiting a malicious website, or by a previous data breach of a business server that stores your data, then your data gets sold by scammers on the dark web who will see you as fresh meat and prey on you even more. This is why some receive 40+ scam calls everyday while others get 0 to 2 calls per day. If you provide your personal information to a phone scammer, lured by fake 80%-discounted drugs or scared by fake IRS officers, you receive even more phone scams and identity theft can take years to repair. Most unsolicited calls are scams, often with an Indian accent. No other country is infested with pandemics of phone room sweatshops filled with criminals who belong to the lowest India caste and many are thieves and rapists who were serving jail time but released early due to prison overcrowding. India scammers shout profanities at you. Just laugh at their abusive language. Google "Hindi swear words" and memorize some favorites, e.g. call him "Rundi Ka Bacha" (son of whore) or call her "Rundi Ki Bachi" (daughter of whore). Scammers ignore the National Do-Not-Call Registry; asking scammers to stop calling is useless. You do these scammers a favor by quickly hanging up. But you ruin their scams when you slowly drag them along on the phone call, give them fake personal and credit card data (16 random digits starting with 4 for Visa, 5 for MasterCard), ask them to speak louder and repeat what they said to waste their time and energy.

October 7, 2020

Scam

October 6, 2020

Legitimate call from Comcast Tech Support

October 4, 2020

Tech Support

September 30, 2020

I do not have Comcast

September 17, 2020

Said someone from Nigeria had stollen our identity and was using it through our computer.

July 23, 2020

Spoofed Caller ID. I don't have Comcast in my area (thank God). Spectrum is bad enough.

June 30, 2020

Wants you to open a command prompt and let him know the IP addresses of authorized machines. They can then spoof those machines to get onto your secure network. Dorks - but I'm guessing people fall for it.

February 29, 2020

Comcast crooks. I'm on the do not call list AND they're calling me at 6 in the morning

February 11, 2020

This may be a legitimate Comcast number but it is being spoofed. Someone called to say there were outside users on my wifi network. I've had this call before (errors, foreign ips LOL) and had no intention of turning over control of my laptop for them to "fix the problem." They try to frighten people. Why can't we get rid of this?

January 24, 2020

They called and I watched it ring. They left a message, asking to speak to a fake name I used as a teenager and then called me a ‘b*tch’ before hanging up.

January 7, 2020

I believe that the number itself is legit, but the call was not. I have neither Comcast nor Xfinity. Nor is service available from them in my residential neighborhood. Whoever it is is spoofing a legitimate number to make it look like it is from them.

December 14, 2019

Incoming call from 800-266-2278- I rejected call, and no message left. Based on all the other recent comments regarding Comcast, it would be a scam, as I have never had Comcast and it is not available in my region.

November 30, 2019

Claimed to be Comcast. Tried to say that my computer was hacked. I don't have Comcast and haven't for 20 years. Complete scam. Block

October 24, 2019

Terry Johnson from this phone number indicated that my computer had been hacked - and that Comcast was very concerned about this. I was then transferred to hi supervisor (Jhon Willson) phone # (315) 966-7878, and he told me that they could "fix" the problem forever, by paying them to upload 4 software programs for $199.99 I told him "no thanks" and hung up. Didn't think Comcast made calls regarding computer security issues and offered 2nd party software to "fix" the problem.

October 23, 2019

He said that my computer was hacked and I need to spend $500 to fix it. He got very angry when I said I wanted a letter sent via USPS before I would agree. He threaten to take down my email and internet!

October 21, 2019

This is Xfinity number there is no scam.

October 20, 2019

So if this is Comcast SERVICE, why the heck are they contacting me without just cause? And why doesn’t caller ID say COMCAST? I’m not answering an unknown # for an unknown reason.

September 21, 2019

Fake COMCAST CALL...SPOOF. SCAM

September 10, 2019

(800) 266-2278 Someone making harassment calls from this number 3 to 4 times a week wanting more business as we say no a couple days later they will recall about different package deals. Also we have told them more then 3 dozen times to remove this number from the call list and till this day they still call. Comcast is the worse server from the Customer Service Department.

June 22, 2019