SPIT (SPam over Internet Telephony) is a notional term devised by marketers to describe a problem that does not yet exist, but for which solutions may be sold. No examples have yet been seen in the wild, but Qovia of Frederick, Maryland, have recently filed two patent applications for technology to thwart spit. However, companies providing next generation telephone services to consumers are concerned about VoIP security. Kayote Networks Inc. provides a range of turnkey interconnect services overcoming SPIT. Spamming is the abuse of any electronic communications medium to send unsolicited messages in bulk. ... In telecommunication, Telephony encompasses the general use of equipment to provide voice communication over distances. ... Official language(s) None Capital Annapolis Largest city Baltimore Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 42nd 32,160 km² 145 km 400 km 21 37°53N to 39°43N 75°4W to 79°33W Population  - Total (2000)  - Density Ranked 19th 5,296,486 165... A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a person for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of a device, method, process or composition of matter (substance) (known as an invention) which is new, inventive, and...

Spamming is the abuse of any electronic communications medium to send unsolicited messages in bulk. ... View of a modern spam email, containing an advertising image. ... A DNS-based Blackhole List (DNSBL, Real-time Blackhole List or RBL), is a means by which an Internet site may publish a list of IP addresses, in a format which can be easily queried by computer programs on the Internet. ... The Spamhaus Project is a largely volunteer effort founded by Steve Linford in 1998 that aims to track e-mail spammers and spam-related activity. ... E-mail has become the subject of much abuse, in the form of both spamming and E-mail worm programs. ... A spambot is a program designed to collect, or harvest, e-mail addresses from the Internet in order to build mailing lists for sending unsolicited e-mail, also known as spam. ... Address munging is the practise of disguising, or munging, an e-mail address to prevent it being automatically collected and used as a target for people and organisations who send unsolicited bulk e-mail. ... Spamdexing or search engine spamming is the practice of deliberately and dishonestly manipulating search engines to increase the chance of a website or page being placed close to the beginning of search engine results, or to influence the category to which the page is assigned in a dishonest manner. ... Search Engine Optimization is a set of methods aimed at improving the ranking of a website in search engine listings. ... A screen shot of the results of searching for Miserable failure on Google. ... Keyword stuffing is considered to be an unethical Search engine optimization (SEO) technique. ... Cloaking is a search engine optimization technique in which the content presented to the search engine spider is different from that presented to the users browser; this is done by delivering content based on the IP addresses or the User-Agent HTTP header of whatever is requesting the page. ... On the World Wide Web, a link farm is any group of web pages that all hyperlink to every other page in the group. ... A web ring is group of related web pages linked to each other in a sequence that forms a ring. ... Spam in blogs (also called simply blog spam or comment spam) is a form of spamming or spamdexing that recently became publicized most often when targeting weblogs (or blogs), but also affects wikis (where it is often called wikispam), guestbooks, and online discussion boards. ... Spam blogs, sometimes referred to by the neologism splogs, are weblog sites which the author uses only for promoting affiliated websites. ... Sping is short for ping spam. Pings are messages sent from blog and publishing tools to a centralized network service (Ping Server) providing notification of newly published posts or content. ... Referer spam is a kind of search engine-targeted spam. ... Telemarketing is a registered trademark owned by Nadji Tehrani who founded TeleMarketing Magazine in 1982. ... An auto-dialer is an electronic device that can automatically dial telephone numbers to communicate between any two points in the telephone, mobile phone and pager networks. ... Mobile phone spam is a form of spamming directed at the text messaging service of a mobile phone. ... This phishing attempt, disguised as an official email from a bank, attempts to trick the banks members into giving away their account information by confirming it at the phishers linked website. ... Advance fee fraud, often also known as the Nigerian money transfer fraud, Nigerian scam or 419 scam after the relevant section of the Nigerian Criminal Code that it violates[1], is a fraudulent scheme to extract money from victims after making them believe they will get an immense fortune. ... A typical lottery scam is a scam email that tells the recipient they have won a sum of money in a lottery. ... This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... Messaging spam, sometimes called SPIM, is a type of spam where the target is instant messaging services. ... Newsgroup spam is a type of spamming where the targets are Usenet newsgroups. ... Flyposting is the act of putting advertising posters or flyers in illegal places. ... Although spamming has existed on the Internet since as early as 1978, the first major spamming incidents didnt take place until the early 1990s. ...