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definition of joe job and phishing

2004-03-23 11:35:37

Folks,

I recently did some research on the term Joe-Job and discovered some
ambiguity, or rather, a broader meaning than folks often assume:

Joe Jobbing is the unauthorized use of someone else's email address. It
has two major purposes. One is to redirect an expected mass of error
messages. The other is to gain access to a recipient by tricking them
into believing the message is from the unauthorized address.

Phishing derives from this second function, and seeks to further exploit
the deception, in order to gain private information from the recipient.



d/
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 Dave Crocker <dcrocker-at-brandenburg-dot-com>
 Brandenburg InternetWorking <www.brandenburg.com>
 Sunnyvale, CA  USA <tel:+1.408.246.8253>


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