Spit is spam received through Internet telephony. As more people gravitate to making less expensive phone calls over the net, spit is poised to become a problem as big as spam. It will be easy for marketers to program their computer to send out spit in mass just as they now send out spam. Just as the National Do Not Call list has greatly lowered the volume of unwanted telephone messages, spit will soon infiltrate Internet telephony with a deluge of unsolicited and unwanted voicemail.

Spim is spam received through Instant Messaging. It is already becoming a problem. Researchers expect that about four billion messages will be sent to instant message users in 2005. Although they haven’t yet come up with a name for it, text messages sent to cell phones promoting viagra, get-rich schemes, and mortgage offers, are also on the rise.

Dodgy Domains – These are fake Web sites that are masquerading as legitimate Web sites. Spammers and other criminal-types create these Web sites with names very similar to real Web site names. Then they use e-mail to direct people to these Web sites with the express purpose of stealing personal information. This type of online fraud has already produced domains similar to Citibank and EBay that have fooled thousands of unsuspecting users.

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