Fields Data Recovery offers a "No Cost" hard drive evaluation to see if they feel they can recover your data. Once they decide that your data is recoverable, they send you an email estimate to begin the process.
Once you pay the initial fee for them to proceed, they tell you that if they are not able to recover your data, you do not need to pay the additional fee. In my case the initial fee was $316. If they were able to recover my data, then I would send them an additional (approx.) $425 for a total of well over $730.
Of course, they end up NOT being able to recover your data. They send you a bogus explanation as to why they were not able to retrieve your data. They SAY they will return your drive, but they often do not.
This company ostensibly has its headquarters in Pencoed, Great Britain, with satellite locations all over the world, and in New York and St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Do Not Trust This Company !!
alexsu
United States of America#2General Comment
Mon, April 04, 2011
That's good to know, I was about to send in my hard drive to them for repair, but thanks for the heads up.
Rowland Ferraro
United Arab Emirates#3General Comment
Sun, August 22, 2010
just do a search for data recovery blog, ed for god sake I am trying to help victims of this scam whereas all you are doing is holding companies to ransom to take down negative posts. I notice the founder of the website has quite a few complaints about breaching data protection laws and selling on confidential data, moving servers to dubious locations to avoid being shut down (again).
Hypocrites.
Rowland Ferraro
United Arab Emirates#4General Comment
Sun, July 25, 2010
I have been trying to warn the public about this company's fraudulent business practices. Could you please contact me on rowland (at) (((Redacted)))? I can record your complaint and forward it to the authorities.
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