# joe job

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. An uninteresting, low-level, low-paying job.
2. 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.

## Etymology
In the computing sense, originated from such a spam attack against Joe Doll in 1997.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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