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Old Thursday, February 5th, 2009   #1
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Hello,

A joe job is spam lingo for when a spammer uses your email address as the From: address in their spam mailings.

The result is that all of the bounce messages go back to your account and not the spammers or their mail servers.

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Hello,

A joe job is spam lingo for when a spammer uses your email address as the From: address in their spam mailings.

The result is that all of the bounce messages go back to your account and not the spammers or their mail servers.

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haha Never heard that term for it. I happen to call them spamming mofos
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If you want to know for sure you can check the full email headers.

To get help with reading the full email headers and reporting abuse please reply here and we'll be more than happy to help you.

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