Eyeglass Vendor, Imprisoned for Terrorizing Consumers, Is Accused of Fraud -<br />By DAVID SEGALMAY 25, 2017<br />Vitaly Borker served a three-and-a-half-year stint in prison for threatening to stalk, maim<br />and murder customers of his online eyeglass store, DecorMyEyes.<br />“Borker’s shameless brand of alleged abuse cannot be tolerated,” Joon H. Kim, the acting United States attorney for the Southern District<br />of New York, said in a news release, “and we are committed to protecting consumers from becoming victims of such criminal behavior.<br />One buyer, a woman in California identified in a criminal complaint as Victim-1, said<br />that someone had called her 35 times a day after she complained online about a fake and damaged pair of Ray-Bans she bought from the site.<br />Asked where the company was based, she snapped “That’s none of your business.”<br />Efforts to reach Mr. Borker at the time were unsuccessful, although he was not keeping a particularly low profile.<br />None of the victims identified by the government, nor any of the dozens of OpticsFast<br />customers who posted complaints on Yelp, mentioned physical threats.<br />Another customer, identified in the complaint as Victim-8, clicked on an OpticsFast link<br />that generated a shipping label to mail in glasses for repair.
