Joe-job

Alternative forms

• Joe-job, {{3}}

Origin

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Full definition of joe-job

Verb

1. (transitive) To send out unsolicited emails using spoofed data of (a sender).
• 2004, Meng Weng Wong, SPF Overview, Hotmail and AOL get joe-jobbed every day: a lot of spam pretends to be from AOL but doesn’t really come through their servers.
• 2004, Helen Martin, ASRG Summary: September 2004, Eric S. Raymond said that if SPF deployment does nothing other than stop the thousand bogus bounces he receives each day as a result of spammers ‘joe-jobbing’ his domain, it is a winner.
• 2008, w:Cory Doctorow, w Chapter 17, My Swedish mailbox was repeatedly joe-jobbed—used as the return address for spams sent to hundreds of millions of Internet accounts, so that all the bounces and angry messages came back to me.

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