Joe Jobs
A “joe job” is 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. The name comes from the first recorded incident, against joes.com.
Joe Job Overviews and Recovery
Joe job - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_job
Sabotage! Coping With The Joe Job - www.sitepoint.com/article/sabotage-coping-joe-job/
Recover after a joe job - 3C703AAC.3923EDA5%40tls.msk.ru
Joe Job Incidents
These detail deliberate attempts to make a spam run appear to come from, and advertise, the victim.
Spam Attack! - www.joes.com/spammed.html
Received spam “from” Spamhaus? - www.spamhaus.org/notices/joejob.html
Spam Incidents - www.linux.org/about/spam.html
I got a spam and it led me to this site - spam.abuse.net/bits/igotspam.shtml
The UEFF Joe Jobs - www.xtdnet.nl/paul/spam/ueff/
Monkeys.com Joe Job - www.monkeys.com/joejob.html
Global Prosperity “joe” Kelly Freehold - www.kellyfreehold.com/~global/
Dean and apparent joe-job - www.spamvertized.org/2004/dean-joejob.html
We do NOT spam - www.quatloos.com/spam-free.htm
Recent attack against my anti-spam website - members.aol.com/frederi108/explain.htm
BoxedArt.com is Under Spam Attack! - www.boxedart.com/services/spamattack.php
JoeJob, czyli podszywanie sie; pod nadawce - nospam-pl.net/joe-job.php
Eat Stay Play joe job - www.eatstayplay.com/html/joejob.html
Snopes list of joe jobs - www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/joejobs/joejobs.asp
Steve's “Joe Job” Page - members.cox.net/joejob/
“From” Address Forgeries
When the “From” address in a spam is forged to that of a third party, bounces from non-existent addresses can flood the mailbox of the victim. If you use a spam filter that sends fake bounces, you are contributing to the flood of unwanted email, called backscatter that these people receive: stop it.
Examples of “from” address forgery, while distressing to the victim, are far too numerous to list, unless they are unusually deliberate, persistent or damaging.
Art101 fights back spam attack - www.art101.com/video/nospam.html
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Page last updated: 16-Aug-2006