Pharma Spammer Gets 30 Years in Prison

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via C|Net.

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AOL once deemed an infamous Minnesota spammer named Christopher William
Smith "the poster child for the Can-Spam Act."

A federal judge in his home state on Wednesday had a new name for the
convicted junk mailer: "drug kingpin." He sentenced Smith to 30 years in
prison for multiple charges stemming from his highly lucrative online
drugstore, whose illegal sales brought in about $24 million, the Star
Tribune in Minneapolis reports.

U.S. authorities originally arrested Smith in 2005 on belief that he had
moved his business, called XPress Pharmacy, to the Dominican Republic after
his stateside operations were ordered to cease.

Smith, who went by the moniker "Rizler," first gained notoriety by
reportedly blasting to AOL subscribers billions of junk e-mails promoting
the usual array of spamalicious goods: "generic Viagra," porn, cable TV
descramblers and penis-enhancement pills, according to reports. Security
experts once ranked him among their most prolific offenders.

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More:
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9753805-7.html

- - ferg

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