[SpamCop-List] Re: Define "Joe Job"

[AB]

http://www.global-prosperity.com is thankfully back up!

Check out http://www.global-prosperity.com/attacks.html
for a nice illustration of  Joe-Jobs in action, complete with
spam examples. :)




"Pete Stephenson" <pete> wrote in message
news:050220011452249421%pete
> In article <95na8j$vqp$1>, Chris W
> <chrisw> wrote:
>
> > At the risk of sounding quite daft....
> >
> > Could someone please define "Joe Job" for me?
> >
> > I didn't find a definition in a search of the SpamCop help area or
alt.spam
> > FAQ.  Perhaps there's another term?
>
> http://www.joes.com/spammed.html is where it all started. :)
>
> Essentially, it's sending spam while making it look like it came from
> someone else (i.e. If someone wanted to joe-job me, they could send
> spam with a from/return address of "pete" , or spamming for
> someone else against their permission (i.e. The IGP spammers sending
> spam referencing http://www.global-prosperity.com/, an
> anti-global-prosperity website exposing that they're scammers, etc. in
> the hopes of getting it shut down...which they appear to have done).
>
> --
> Pete Stephenson
> pete
> PGP Key: 0xCD063DA6