Joe-job

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To send out unsolicited emails using spoofed data of (a sender). transitive

    "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."

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of joe-job. alt-of

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

Example

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"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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Denominal verb of joe job.

Etymology 2

Denominal verb of Joe job.

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