NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – A Poquoson man was convicted Tuesday by a federal jury on charges of mail fraud, conspiracy to commit mail fraud, money laundering, unlawful monetary transactions and obtaining money under false pretenses, and faces up to 20 years in prison.
Barry Glenn Augustinsky, 55, owned telecommunications companies that facilitated voice-over internet protocol, or VoIP, telephone calls, according to court records and trial evidence. For at least five years, from 2018 through at least 2023, Augustinsky and the chief executive officer of OneTen Communications, a call center in Karachi, Pakistan, “engaged in a conspiracy in which representatives of OneTen used his VoIP services to make millions of voice calls to people in the U.S.
During the calls, OneTen representatives made false and fraudulent representations, among them telling victims their credit card debt would be reduced or eliminated if they sent payments to companies controlled by Augustinsky, court records and evidence indicated, and callers would represent they were agents of legitimate debt relief companies, though OneTen had no affiliation with those companies…