Amex will eat the losses in some cases, this I'm sure. They do not like to use their own money to refund customers, but if all else fails it is an option. For some reason i think that Amex ate the loss, I seriously doubt Alpha Sprouts Tech has any funds sitting anywhere. They are accountants after all, or are they just as bad at that as they were with this latest scheme. Wouldn't surprise me if they were.

I did have a post deleted from this thread a while back. I was mocking their announcements and my post got deleted within 24 hours.  Since then I have lost interest in this scam. They may have moderator power here, which reflects horribly for this B.B.