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