joe-job

present singular third person joe-jobs · participle present joe-jobbing · participle past joe-jobbed · past joe-jobbed · alternative Joe-job

1. transitiveTo 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

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   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

   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

present singular third person Joe-jobs · participle present Joe-jobbing · participle past Joe-jobbed · past Joe-jobbed

1. Alternative letter-case form of joe-job.

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

   2003 October 31, Jonathan Krim, “Hate that spam? E-mail providers may save the day”, in The Idaho Statesman, 140th year, number 98, Boise, Ida., →ISSN, →OCLC, Main section, page 4, column 6

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   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 ===

   2003 November 30, Wm..., “I thought I had been Joe-jobbed, I was wrong it is Thanksgiving w/e in the USA”, in demon.service (Usenet), archived from the original on 05 Jun 2025

   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.

   2006 March 11, Scott Allen, “Joe jobbing moves to blog comment spam - I'm a victim”, in news.admin.net-abuse.misc (Usenet), archived from the original on 05 Jun 2025