joe job
- noun
- NSFW
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suplantación de identidad
- The email was a joe job that smeared the journalist by impersonating his address.
Examples
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I received a joe job email that looked like it came from my boss.
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After the politician received the joe job, supporters rushed to correct the false accusations online.
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Security teams discovered the joe job and traced the forged headers to several compromised servers.
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The hacker launched a joe job against the politician.
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The email was a joe job that smeared the journalist by impersonating his address.
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After the politician received the joe job, supporters rushed to correct the false accusations online.
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I received a joe job email that looked like it came from my boss.
Synonyms
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8.4
A written or spoken attack that unfairly hurts someone's reputation
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8.5
A secret plan to trick people by making something seem accidental
How Harmful
Surface Forms
Morphology
The components 'Joe' (a generic person) and 'job' (work or task) give no cue to an email-forgery attack; the term is specialized computing/journalistic jargon whose meaning (forged emails to discredit someone) is not derivable from the parts. This sense is idiomatic and domain-specific, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would not predict the MWE's meaning without prior exposure.
Etymology
Joe job comes from old email attacks where someone made a message look like it was sent by an ordinary person called Joe, putting the real person in a bad light. That's why a joe job now means 'an email attack that fakes the sender to discredit or frame someone'.