[62946] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: what to do about joe-jobs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin Shore)
Wed Sep 24 14:32:41 2003
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:14:08 -0500 (CDT)
From: Justin Shore <listuser@numbnuts.net>
To: Stephen L Johnson <stephen.johnson@mail.state.ar.us>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1064427042.6059.20.camel@sljohnson.state.ar.us>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Stephen L Johnson wrote:
> Please forgive my ignorance, but what is a "joe-job"?
I dug up some links for you.
http://www.spamfaq.net/terminology.shtml#joe_job
http://www.techtv.com/news/culture/story/0,24195,3415219,00.html
http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/J/joe-job.html
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Joe%20Job (might be down?)
Basically it's of spoofing the source of spam so as to appear to come from
an innocent person. I've been on the receiving end of it a couple of
times. Basically the innocent person gets flooded with bounces from
poorly written MTAs and anti-spam scripts. Think email-based virus
bounces. You didn't send the virus; you aren't even infected. However
some machine somewhere is infected and spoofed your address as source of
the infected email. You of course end up with the bounce and
blame from uneducated people for being infected (which again you are not).
Hope that helps
Justin
