Sending spam using someone else's e-mail address as the sender. Joe jobs are done to either hide the address of the real sender or to send out derogatory or political messages in order to attack someone. The Joe Jobber hopes that people will quickly start complaining about the sender's comments to the ISP, and the ISP will shut down the account. See spam. See also Joe account.
 | Reproduced with permission from Computer Desktop Encyclopedia. Copyright (c) 1981-2008 The Computer Language Company Inc. All rights reserved. |
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