"If this person [Christopher "Rizler" Smith] really made as much money as has been claimed, and did it entirely through spamming, given that only about one in ten million spams causes someone to send money, he must have sent somewhere around a trillion (!) spams. If each one caused someone to lose just one second of productive life, he's only one order of magnitude short of 9/11 or Katrina, and only two orders of magnitudes short of the Blitz."
-- Keith F. Lynch

[Christopher "Rizler" Smith was sentenced to thirty years in prison for illegally operating an online pharmacy. The FBI claims that he made approximately $18 million during his last year of marketing drugs via spam. The Register says that Smith "allegedly sent more than one billion emails through America Online" rather than Lynch's estimate of one trillion.]