The amount of spam on the internet has Increased dramatically, you can read these articles for more info. On top of that, it is not as easy to stop a spammer by law - as it is to jail a thief.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061127/tc_ ... wars1_dc_1

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/99249/spam- ... nears.html

Now as far as websites go, make sure you have some anti-spam scripts installed as well as a good backend like Akismet.