joe-job
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.70 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Alternative letter-case form of joe-job.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "“People get Joe-jobbed every day,” said Meng Wong, chief technology officer and founder of Pobox.com, a Philadelphia-based e-mail account provider."
- "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 ==="
- "It seems that Joe-jobbing has now moved to blog comment spam. I apparently pissed off one of these comment spammers and now they're going around to dozens, if not hundreds, of blogs (seems to be mostly WordPress blogs) and posing as me, posting comments in my name and linking to my site."