Circa 1996, a Joe Job is spam run forged to appear as though it came from an innocent party, who is then generally flooded by the bounces; or, the act of performing such a run. Modern Joe Jobs involve forged email headers and other nasty tricks to make it really convincing. And with the advent of dnsBLs like SPEWS (The Spam Prevention Early Warning System) and peoples' personal lists, a successful Joe Job can really hurt the victim.
an e-mail spam designed to tarnish the reputation of an innocent third party
an e-mail spoofing exploit in which someone sends out huge volumes of spam that appear to be from someone other than the actual source
a spam campaign forged to appear as though it came from an innocent party, with the intention of incriminating or pinning blame onto that party
a spam run forged to appear to come from another innocent party, with the intention of generating complaints about the victim and damaging their reputation
a spam with sender info forged to look like it came from some popular source
A Joe Job is the act of forging spam mail headers to make it look like it comes from someone whom the spammer will hurt. The victim will soon be flooded with bounces and angry replies.
A spam-industry term for a forged email, in which a spammer or hacker fakes a genuine email address in order to hide his identity.
When a spammer forges someone else's name and e-mail address to make them look like the spammer. The term comes from an incident where a an ISP known as JOES.COM had a customer that spammed. The ISP terminated his account and the spammer retaliated by sending even more spam from another service, forging it to look like it came from the JOES.COM administrator. JOES.COM was inundated with thousands of complaints from recipients of the spam and eventually they had to shut down.
A "Joe Job" is a spam-industry term for forging email addresses to make one email message look as if it came from a different address in order to hide the sender's true identity. Sorry, No Terms for this letter
The impersonation of an innocent victim by a spammer. In an attempt to retaliate against those who report them for their abuse, spammers have been known to impersonate the spam reporter, trying to get the victim's Internet service terminated... even going so far as to send out millions of fictional, forged emails. Believe me— I know from personal experience that the results can be hellish. This kind of attack is a violation of virtually all Internet service providers' contracts, and can even be illegal. This is one reason why giving your address to the spammer for "removal" can be dangerous... especially if the spammer can associate your removal request with an abuse report that you previously filed. This is also one reason why spam-reporting services like SpamCop remove your address from ("munge") spam reports you send through it. See also mail bomb.
Een Joe Job is het vervalsen van e-mail headders zodat het lijkt alsof het het komt van iemand wie de spammer wil benadelen. Het slachtoffer zal overvloedig boze antwoorden ontvangen..
Online, a joe job (or Joe job) is a spam attack using spoofed sender data and aimed at tarnishing the reputation of the apparent sender and/or induce the recipients to take action against him (see also e-mail spoofing). For a related phenomenon that is not targeted directly at a particular victim, see backscatter of email spam.