[SpamCop-List] Re: Update on TeamAaronShara - they claim it's a joe job

[Jeff G.]

BMW <rwcs at spamcop.net> wrote:
> Borgholio wrote:
>> Here's their link:
>>
>> http://www.teamaaronshara.com/daily.html
>>
>> Based on how it's a pretty decent sized flood that came out of
>> nowhere, I'm half-inclined to believe them.  Some forum posts I
>> found on Google were from people who claimed TAS was a scam
>> organization...so that if this is a joe-job, that's the culprit.
> Help me out here, What is a joe-job?

Per
http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=4473&st=0&p=29916&#Joe :
 1. 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.
2. A Joe job is an e-mail spam designed to tarnish the reputation of an
innocent third party. Despite having existed since at least 1996, Joe
jobs are uncommon compared to other types of spam because they provide
no commercial benefit to the Joe jobber.
3. A "joe job" is something far above and distinct from the all too
typical spammer construct of a "From" Address Forgery
For more info:
"Why am I getting all these bounces?" at
http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=203
http://spamlinks.net/faqs-joejob.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_jobs

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