Christopher William Smith
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Christopher William Smith ("Rizler") (born January 28, 1980) was a prolific e-mail spammer, advertising drugs from his Xpress Pharmacy Direct in Burnsville, Minnesota, United States.
He was charged in August 2005 with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, wire fraud, selling misbranded drugs and money laundering. Federal officials added a count of operating a continuing criminal enterprise in a revised indictment filed in May 2006. In November 2006, Smith was convicted on nine counts by a federal jury in Minneapolis. He faces at least 20 years in prison.
In January 2006, Smith was, in a separate case, ordered to pay AOL $5.6 million for spamming its members in 2003.
Smith is currently awaiting trial at the Oak Park Heights Supermax prison in Stillwater, Minnesota where he was moved for plotting to have a witness in his case killed. If convicted on this charge, he could receive life in prison.
Sources close to Smith (previous classmates) describe him as "an unbalanced individual" and "frankly, kind of an outcast nerd in high school".
