Christopher William Smith or Rizler as he is know to some, is one of the "SPAM kings". He's run a successful "online pharmacy" (v|@grA seller) for quite some time and is as almost as notorious as spammers can get. Really successful. He accumulated more than 17 cars and millions in assets before his 28th birthday.

Well, this week, U.S. District Judge Michael Davis has sentenced Chris to 30 years in the slammer. Unfortunately, it's not really for sending SPAM.

The real reason is, Chris doesn't have a license to sell prescription drugs in the US but he's been doing it anyway. $24 million (USD) worth (which does raise the question, who the hell was buying it all?). Chris was ordered to cease selling the drugs online in a previous court case but rather than obey, he simply skipped the country and set up shop south of the border.

To do all this, he used false passports, obtained money from frozen accounts and threatened people's lives. This includes looking into hiring a hitman to take out his previous database admin, Bernadette Hollis. A truly charming fellow - everything we like to imagine a spammer to be.So that's one less spammer to worry about but probably no less spam in your inbox tomorrow.

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