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English
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)
- (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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