“JOE JOB SPAM ATTACK”

USE OF A FAKE RETURN ADDRESS IN A SPAM MESSAGE

You received an Email from someone you know? But discover that person didn’t really sent this message?  How is that possible?

A Joe job is the use of a fake return address in a spam message to make the message look like it’s coming from a domain or sender other than the spammer.

A Joe job can be an intentional thing where the actual sender is attempting to make the owner of the falsely-used domain name look bad or it can be an unintentional thing where the faked return address has been randomly selected. 

Most Joe jobs are the latter as the associated spam messages typically link to some temporary Internet address not under the control of the Joe-jobbed domain. Intentional Joe jobs will typically contain links back to the Joe-jobbed domain and contain material that’s designed to elicit the largest indignant response (e.g., porn, a Nigerian scam message, or some phishing scheme like an order confirmation that asks you to confirm a credit card number). 

So, the answer still rests with users simply ignoring spam and deleting it when it gets through whatever basic filters are in place. 

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