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Complete scammer site, Lucas is a fate scammer, stole 26k from me, the website is convincing but all fake. Protect yourself and stay clear.
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How many consumers and SMEs have fallen for the #Fieldsdatarecoveryscam and are not aware of how they were deceived, defruded or worse had their data stolen. Why should consumers and businesses be asking Trustpilot why they should be trusted ? Consider that for a decade Trustpilot has been involved in hijacking reviews of companies and has used the same "sector domination by unrelenting growth" approach to business as the Fields Group. But as has happened to Fields the ability to keep paying for reputation management, VPNs, click fraud relys on not being detected. What is so "super, special or sophisticated" about Trustpilots Fraud and Compliance software ? How many companies are trapped into paying for reputation management and fear that if they stop their SEO and Star ratings will be damaged ? Should there be celebration when a $Billion Unicorn UK PLC launches or questions asked why do they need to be recruiting an army of lawyers ? Has trustpilot done special deals with any companies that are unfair competition ? Why are victims of the #fieldsdatrecoveryscam not invited to leave reviews and what are the implications to the trustworthiness of the Trustboxes and Truststars of all traders and companies who are paying to protect their companies online reputations. Trustpilot has so much potential as a platform - unfortunately that potential is potentially more harmful to more good SMEs than to bad ones. Will anyone at Trustpilot dare to comment ? #reviews #reviewsmatter Competition and Markets Authority LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) BBC News @ #cybersecurity #reputationmanagement #business #compliance #unicorn #recruiting
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Complete scammer site, Lucas is a fate scammer, stole 26k from me, the website is convincing but all fake. Protect yourself and stay clear.
Poor communications and I question that there's proof that any work was actually done for a decent chunk of cash upfront that's not refundable.
Very cleverly reeled in with promises of high recovery rates and confidence - and then slowly and surely start the process of putting in issues and problems over 7 weeks until after a couple of weeks radio silence, the "UK Head of Sales" drops the inevitable "we can't recover anything".
Drive sent back minus the cover and the power adaptor.
Protected by Terms and Conditions.
They seem to use a lot of affiliate and trading names too which caught me out.
Mine was Date Recovery Specialists UK.
Once bitten, twice shy.

Reply from rapid-data-recovery.net
Fields data recovery ripped me off in 2011 and performed a risky recovery without advising me properly, resulting in non-recovery of my essential files.
Turns out they have had nearly 900 complaints to fair trading for their dodgy practices.
Thanks to Andrew Butler at R3 Data Recovery who explained to me exactly how I was taken advantage of and highlighting the number of complaints against Fields.

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Quoted an extortionate price to recover only 20% of my data, this was after the diagnostic report took 4 weeks to compile, took another 2 weeks to return my drive. Absolutely terrible customer service (Jason) the agent I was assigned was at times rude and condescending (that's when i did manage to get hold of him). How this company is still operating is beyond me. I wish I’d done my homework before sending my drive off. My only saving grace is that I didn’t give them any money. What a waste of time.

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This is as impartial a review as I feel able to write on the services offered by this company, when tasked to carry out data recovery on a 2Tb External HDD which had suffered a head stack assembly failure. There are several hundred very negative reviews of this company and it's parent on the Internet. All I wish to do is state the facts from my experience. I am an IT tech of some years standing so I know my way around the BS and these guys are experts in that field.
First of all, their business model is not transparent. The "no fix, no fee" statement on their website was certainly not true in my case. I was asked to pay £250 + VAT upfront after a supposed diagnosis of the problem I had with my hard drive revealed what I already knew, namely that it had suffered a mechanical failure. I would suggest that there "from £XX" statement is merely a device to draw in customers, given that the costs of data recovery are several hundreds of pounds, such a low sum is an obvious magnet. This company is not about data recovery - it is about making money out of people who may have lost significant amounts of sensitive or personal data and are willing to pay money up front with no guarantee of success out of sheer desperation. I will leave you to form your own opinion on such practices.
This £250 + VAT was to cover "specialist parts" and labour - the drive in question is not a specialist piece of hardware, is available in most outlets that sell PC hardware, and for donor parts not to have been available from stock for this drive from such a supposedly large concern was the first thing to set the alarm bells ringing
I was told that "the platters were in good condition so 100% recovery is expected" over the telephone but the backup email from the engineer was a lot less positive, stating only 70% likelihood of recovery. It's actually impossible to tell what condition the platters are in until the head stack assembly is replaced and the platters can be assessed as a working drive, so this statement was both false and misleading.
Additionally, a further £195 + VAT would be payable if the head stack assembly replacement was successful, which was not guaranteed (and this £300 fee is non-refundable, as strictly speaking it is outside of the recovery process - clever, but disingenuous in the extreme), and any part of the data on the repaired drive could be recovered.
At this point I headed to the reviews and was horrified by what I read - so much so that I immediately contacted the company and instructed them to return my drives without any further work being undertaken or attempted, with a recorded delivery letter as backup similarly detailing my decision not to proceed. There are plenty of reviews out there for you to judge for yourself, and some of them are eye watering in their condemnation.
At no point did I become antagonistic towards this company as I had read reviews where people had admitted to having lost their temper with the sales practices being adopted, requested their hardware returned and received drives that were so badly damaged that any recovery was impossible. I had also been advised by another company to be polite and respectful when requesting the return of my property as they themselves handled the recovery requirements of a significant number of former and very disgruntled customers of this company, and on more than one occasion had significant work to do to overcome damage and neglect on the part of this company where safe handling and storage were evidently ignored.
I also checked the link in the original email I received from the company, that offered me tracking facilities in order to monitor the status of my drive as it progressed through the recovery process, and it did not work at any time during the aborted recovery process.
I received my drives some 8 days after they had been sent for repair (the original, it's power supply and replacement media) with the only evidence that any work had been attempted a crude attempt to open the outer casing with what looked like a screwdriver. A so called expert data recovery company would know exactly how the case on this drive went together and would not have simply butchered it apart.
I can't speak highly enough of the speed the drives came back when I refused to hand over any money - I paid for the drives to be returned as their "free of charge" return service did not appeal overmuch - and they came back in a foam lined box, pretty much how they had been sent, inside 48 hours so again, I doubt any work had been done at all.
It is entirely possible that the company could and would have repaired my drive and restored all of my data, but the way they go about their business is redolent of the old life insurance, double glazing and home improvement scams of the 80s and 90s. Sadly, it seems about 80% of this market place is littered with similar snake oil salesmen.
Be very, VERY careful out there

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Beware this is a scam. They will promise you things and then basically steal your goods. You will never see your products again.

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Hi guys,
I work as an IT technician but I failed to tell them this before I sent the drive to them. Here’s what happened. ..
The drive was only 2 months old brand new cloud storage drive £200 so not a cheap one, I accidently deleted the admin user account deleting the home folder with my work on, so I sent it off to them to see if they could recover it for me. I explained all this before I sent the drive to them and I explained that the public folder was still intact with all my work on there but another folder was missing and that's the folder I would like recovering.
They called me and said £95 for the recovery (max) as the drive does not have any mechanical problems. so far so good. :)
I sent the drive to them next day delivery, they called me about 9:00 the next morning saying that they had received it. Great!
Here's where the bulls*** starts .. They called me at mid-day ..3 hours after they had received the drive insisting they have worked tirelessly on my hard drive and they have managed to recover my data. Excellent! (not sure how 3 hours is tirelessly ) He then said that he had recovered the public folder (which was already on the drive and accessible) and had to replace the platters and heads on the hard drive costing me £950 plus VAT..OMG!
First of all you haven’t recovered anything that folder was already there, second of all there was no mechanical problems with the drive its practically brand new, 3rd you haven’t replaced anything on the drive you have plugged it into a computer with a sata cable and ran a quick scan!
Fuming with the pure lies that this guy was telling me I asked him to just send me the drive back, he then said “I can speak with my manager and see if I can get it down to £95” I told him to forget it I want my drive back you should be ashamed of yourselves for blatantly lying to get more money out of me.
He then said it would take 3-4 weeks to send the drive back to me! I’m currently going to trading standards to start a complaint against the company. What a disgrace these companies are allowed to TRY and rip people off! If I wasn’t in the know then I would have just paid the amount they were asking.
Please avoid this company do some research and you will see that they have over 500 complaints ongoing with trading standards.
Also be very wary of the GOOD reviews on here, have you noticed there all the same and very short reviews? Fake perhaps? I think so.

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