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joe-job en · VERB

Etymology

Denominal verb of joe job.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To send out unsolicited emails using spoofed data of (a sender).
   • 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 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:
   • 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. 2008, Cory Doctorow, chapter 17, in Little Brother, New York, N.Y.: Tor Teen, →ISBN, page 272:
   • 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. 2004 October, Helen Martin, “ASRG Summary: September 2004”, in Helen Martin, editor, Virus Bulletin, Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Virus Bulletin, →OCLC, page S4, column 2:

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