Meaning of joe-job | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To send out unsolicited emails using spoofed data of (a sender).
   transitive
2. Alternative letter-case form of joe-job.
   alt-of

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

““People get⟳ Joe-jobbed every day,” said Meng Wong, chief technology officer and founder of Pobox.com, a Philadelphia-based e-mail account provider.”

“I thought I'd been Joe-jobbed when I saw⟳: === Sun, 30 Nov 2003 15:16:22 Finished collecting mail from POP3 server 127.0.0.1, 21 messages accepted, 3495 rejected / Sun, 30 Nov 2003 15:16:22 3495 messages deleted from POP3 server, 43 messages remain⟳ ===”

“It seems that Joe-jobbing has now moved to blog comment⟳ spam. I apparently pissed off one of these comment⟳ spammers and now they're going around to dozens, if not hundreds, of blogs (seems to be mostly WordPress blogs) and posing as me, posting comments in my name⟳ and linking to my site.”

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