Joe Job Meaning

(US, idiomatic, computing) An act of e-mail spamming where the sender's identity and address are those of an innocent third party, intended either to tarnish that person's reputation or to flood that person's e-mail with bounces.

Example: 2007 Feb. 23, Chris Seibold, "February 23, 1973: Hitting the clock like a regular fella," Applematters.com (retrieved 25 May 2007):
  Steve Wozniak may be a well-heeled philanthropist and world-renowned tinkerer, but at one time he had a Joe job as an engineer in Hewlett-Packard's calculator division.

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