It has now been over two years now since I and thousands of others around the world pre-ordered the Viper ASIC Scrypt miners from the Manchester, UK based Alpha Technology. No-one has yet received a miner, refund or an update of the fraud investigation from Greater Manchester Police.
This is something that is baffling many in the industry as they still haven’t even a finished product to ship on a promise gave in May 2014 that they would begin dispatching the miners in July 2014 by the director Mohammed Akram.
“As we will not be spending more time on non-essential components, and as a result also require less final manufacturing and testing time, we will still be shipping in July; even with the increased hash rates”
This date has moved continuously throughout 2014/15 and now into 2016 with sporadic updates from the company claiming a new issue needs resolved each time.
Hopes of a refund were lifted for many of us in February of last year with word that the Manchester based ASIC Company may be facing a possible police investigation following information being reviewed by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) which found sufficient viable lines of inquiry.
http://cointelegraph.uk/news/116105/alpha-technology-2-years-no-viper-refund-or-prosecution
