What is "joe job"

alt. 1 (context idiomatic English) An uninteresting, low-level, low-paying job. 2 (context US idiomatic computing English) An act of e-mail spam where the sender's identity and address are those of an innocent third party, intended either to tarnish that person's reputation or to flood that person's e-mail with bounces. n. 1 (context idiomatic English) An uninteresting, low-level, low-paying job. 2 (context US idiomatic computing English) An act of e-mail spam where the sender's identity and address are those of an innocent third party, intended either to tarnish that person's reputation or to flood that person's e-mail with bounces.

A joe job is a spamming technique that sends out unsolicited e-mails using spoofed sender data. Early joe jobs aimed at tarnishing the reputation of the apparent sender or inducing the recipients to take action against them (see also e-mail spoofing), but they are now typically used by commercial spammers to conceal the true origin of their messages.