joe-job

See also: Joe-job, joe job, and Joe job

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Denominal verb of joe job.

Verb

joe-job (third-person singular simple present joe-jobs, present participle joe-jobbing, simple past and past participle joe-jobbed)

  1. (transitive) To send out unsolicited emails using spoofed data of (a sender).
    • 2004 April, Meng Weng Wong, “SPF Overview”, in Don Marti, editor, Linux Journal, number 120, Seattle, Wash.: Specialized System Consultants, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 62, column 2:
      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 October, Helen Martin, “ASRG Summary: September 2004”, in Helen Martin, editor, Virus Bulletin, Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Virus Bulletin, →OCLC, page S4, column 2:
      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, Cory Doctorow, chapter 17, in Little Brother, New York, N.Y.: Tor Teen, →ISBN, page 272:
      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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