Are you evaluating offers for data recovery? Beware of those you contact !!

Are you evaluating offers for data recovery? Beware of those you contact !!

Are you undecided about which company you want to recover your data from?

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In fact, many people are guided by the so-called "best price" that they can find by searching on the internet, often running into unpleasant situations in which their data are irretrievably lost by companies that claim to be data recovery specialists, but which in reality do not they have the experience and skills necessary for this delicate task. Result: the data is irretrievably lost.

In addition to this pitfall, you need to pay close attention to data recovery companies that attract customers by offering fabulous prices (for example, if data recovery is offered at 249 AED, there is probably something wrong!). The danger is in particular with companies based abroad, which are advertised as  Arabian through a special ".ae" website. Obviously, we have nothing against the presence of fair and honest European companies in the national market, but when a foreign operator lacks transparency and does not provide precise information to the consumer, things change!

In particular, we refer to the "SCAM", that is an attempt at fraud planned with social engineering methods. There are far too many customers in Dubai UAE who have undergone this improper treatment and have been presented with accounts up to 4-5 times higher than those initially proposed.
Some of these companies, such as "Fields data recovery" , operate deceptively on a global scale (including Dubai UAE) and the website exposing-fields-data-recovery.com also proves this.

Also in Europe unfortunately there are companies dedicated to this practice and in an important video-investigation of CT Magazine (a well-known computer magazine in Germany) all the details of the way of working of Fields Associates , a data recovery company of the United Kingdom that in Germany advertises itself as  IT-service24 and in Dubai as data-ready (you probably saw their announcement "data recovery starting from 249 AED ").

The video I linked to you is in German subtitled in English, so for those who do not chew the Saxon languages ​​let's make a small summary:

1. The UAE  customer after a loss of data due to the fall of the hard disk searches on the Internet for a company that can recover them and encouraged by the low price proposed decides to rely on the aforementioned IT-service24.

2. Prepare the package and send your disk confidently to the German address provided, after a few days you will receive the first diagnosis in which you are informed that there are interventions to be made on the disk and that to continue the recovery the advance payment of 540 AED is required. Slightly annoyed then for the increase without too many thoughts pays the amount.

3. After another little time it is reported that the recovery is more complicated than expected and that a more thorough scan is required for the complete recovery, cost: € 800 !!

4. The customer is incredulous of this new request for such exorbitant money, but he must get his data back at all costs, so he pays the entire sum again. After a few days he finally receives the disc with the recovered data, connects it and starts to view his data, after a moment of joy because the files seem ok he realizes that 80% of his data is corrupt and cannot be used.

Therefore we invite you to carefully choose the Data Recovery company to be commissioned for the recovery of your data and in this regard we propose these recommendations.

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