What does joe-job mean?
Joe-job means (transitive) To send out unsolicited emails using spoofed data of (a sender).
Joe-job
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Joe-job is a verb meaning (transitive) To send out unsolicited emails using spoofed data of (a sender).
Meaning
(transitive) To send out unsolicited emails using spoofed data of (a sender).
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- joe-jobs
- joe-jobbing
- joe-jobbed
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How do you use joe-job in a sentence?
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.
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