joe-job
joe-job verb: to send out unsolicited emails using spoofed data of (a sender).
Verb (1)
joe-job (third-person singular simple present joe-jobs, present participle joe-jobbing, simple past and past participle joe-jobbed)
- 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
- 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
Verb (2) capitalized: Joe-job
Joe-job (third-person singular simple present Joe-jobs, present participle Joe-jobbing, simple past and past participle Joe-jobbed)
- 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
- 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
Forms of joe-job
| third-person singular present | joe-jobs |
|---|---|
| present participle | joe-jobbing |
| past participle | joe-jobbed |
| past | joe-jobbed |
| alternative form | Joe-job |
| third-person singular present | Joe-jobs |
| present participle | Joe-jobbing |
| past participle | Joe-jobbed |
| past | Joe-jobbed |
Origin of joe-job
Denominal verb of joe job.
Denominal verb of Joe job.
Questions about joe-job
- What does joe-job mean?
- Joe-job means to send out unsolicited emails using spoofed data of (a sender).
- What part of speech is joe-job?
- Joe-job is a verb.
- What is the past tense of joe-job?
- The past tense of joe-job is joe-jobbed.
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