A Midtown Manhattan man has been arrested and accused of threatening to murder an office full of employees at a Colorado company after they caught on to what they said as an attempt at fraudulently earning referral bonuses by opening fake accounts with the company.
Prosecutors with the Eastern District of New York have accused Victor Casillas, 34, of sending multiple threats to an internet company over their refusal to pay him referral bonuses. Casillas allegedly sent multiple threatening emails with pictures of guns to the company, and in one email told employees to "GET READY FOR LAS VEGas part 2."
According to the criminal complaint against him, Casillas signed up with a company that makes an app which "allows users to review and obtain promotional sales offers from various retailers." The company also gives users referral bonuses if they get other people to sign up for their service. The company got into a dispute with Casillas after they said he opened 14 fraudulent accounts in 2016 and 2017 in an attempt to get referral bonuses from them.
When the company wouldn't pay Casillas, federal prosecutors say he began sending them threatening emails, with the first one coming on September 26th, 2017.
such a cowardly act on your behalf whats your name btw? I wanna know who your spouse and children are too and I'm not asking you I'm telling you, I want to know who your parents are as well if the pieces of trash are even still alive (for now) for that matter,
The next day, Casillas allegedly sent the company an email with a picture of two submachine guns and a message that read in part, "THE ACT THAT WAS COMMITED WAS COLD HEARTED SADISTIC, FALSE, I DID NO SUCH THING OF DUPLICATING [Victim Company] ACCOUNTS..... YOU WILL GIVE MY GODAM FTINDS YOU SONS OF BITCHES,". 
A picture of guns that Casilla allegedly sent. (US Attorney's Office)
On September 28th, Casillas allegedly sent another email to the company telling them he was in Colorado and "I AM READY EQUPPIED AND READY TO STRIKE (RETALIATE TO RECOVER STOLEN FUNDS OF 113 BY CRIMINALS OF [Victim Company] INC) IN ANY GTVING MOMENT."
After more threatening emails, the company received one last threat according to prosecutors, in which they say Casillas wrote
GET READY FOR A LAS VEGAS REPEAT (Final Warning), I I STILL HAVE NOT RECIEVED MY GOD DAM FLTNDS.....ASSHOLES . . . WELL GET READY 4 LAS VEGaspart2....MAYBE TODAY YOU WILL MEET YOU MAKER.
Casillas was arrested in Midtown by FBI agents on Tuesday night, and faces up to 20 years in prison for making extortionate threats. Authorities say they didn't find any weapons in his apartment when they arrested him.
