Ripoff Report back online reporting data recovery victims *
I may not be liked by some competitors for exposing and speaking openly about the data recovery scam but have appreciated the support and feedback from other labs who have also witnessed first hand the damage the rogues cause and their tactics to bully those of us who were willing to speak out.
Moreover I hope the UK data recovery market and beyond will benefit from yet another development in bringing better services and success rates to consumers and businesses.
Always get a free quotation from a reputable company:-
  
Hopefully we can restore consumer confidence by promoting reputable professional data recovery companies.
This has its parallels with Quickie-Divorce and Managed Divorce operations also linked to Fields Data Recovery Ltd which has been using its customer lists to tout for new business in Payment Protection Insurance Claims number 08450405921 see Who Calls Me **
If you have been following the Data Recovery Blog and its move to new hosting you will no doubt want to keep up to date with the latest updates.
The rip off report website has been providing a way for consumers to get some justice for their data recovery scam reports and re-inforces the need to check the trading status of any company especially in theses economically turbulent times.
Here are the Data Recovery Scam Rip Off Reports: Rapid Data Recovery
Reported By: Randy (Dallas Texas)
United States of America
Rapid Data Recovery Fields Data Recovery, US ad UK Complete Internet SCAM for Data Recovery Services - FRAUD - THEFT of Media St. Louis, Missouri
*General Comment... Different Experience
Rapid Data Recovery
1001 Craig Rd., Suite 260
St. Louis Missouri 63146
United States of America
Phone: 8668791281
Web Address: http://www.fields-data-recovery.con
Fields Data Recovery appears to have several offices in the US.. They do not. They are maildrops only...
My company will be filing crimial charges with the FBI's St Louis field office for theft of financial data.
Update - Fields Data Recovery Service
Randy - Flower Mound (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Sunday, November 29, 2009 POSTED: Sunday, November 29, 2009
After weeks of phone calls, and emails not returned.. We sent a FEDEX demand letter for the return of our data and hard drives. Fields returned the data originally without the physical disks sent them, in an unusable USB external drive with a UK power supply. We demanded our original disks back, and the data in US formatted power supply. Two more weeks passed, and we finally had to threaten them with formal criminal charges via the FBI’s St Louis field office. They seemed to respond to this threat and a properly formatted drive was sent with our original hard disks via UPS International 1 month after the drives were initially sent for recovery. The data was basically worthless at this time due to the delay. Calls to 1-866-879-1281 were never returned… Complaints were made to the Fields UK office, and to todd.taylor@fields-dat**.com. I called their neighbors and their landlord at 1001 Craig Rd., Suite 260. Turns out that this address is a group of executive offices. Although I cannot confirm this, I am very doubtful that this office contains a clean room for data recovery. It seems very likely that this is a collection center to have jobs sent to the Fields office in the UK, which is where the billing was done in British pounds. A complaint was filed with our credit card disputes department, documenting the above.. And I today received an email from Todd Taylor with Fields after reading my complaint filed here on the ripoff report website. The original report was made before the phyical disks and data were returned to use. While I still believe Fields to be basically a sham data recovery service. The return of the data and hard disks, would preclude the filing of criminal charges via the US FBI. No criminal charges were filed on our behalf.. A billing dispute is however pending with the credit card company, over this transaction. Would highly recomend users finding a local data recovery service, and doing a bit of background research on any company prior to sending your data to them.. A google of "fields data recovery scam" would have saved me a lot of headaches.
Reported By: Herb (Exeter New Hampshire)
USA
Rapid Data Recovery Rapid Data Recovery Fields Data Recovery Scammers and Ripoff. No Data Recovery. No Hard Drive Returned. No Integrity. Internet
Rapid Data Recovery
http://www.fields-data-recovery.co.uk/worldwide.html
Internet Internet
United States of America
Phone:
Web Address
Submitted: Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Posted: Tuesday, September 29, 2009
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 !!
Rapid Data Recovery Fields Data Recovery Internet phone 0800 8030828 Scam Data Recovery. Huddersfield, Other
*Consumer Comment... blog
This company is a crook company ! We were promised that our data were recoverable, and finally we paid €810 to have a DVD with "c:\Program Files\" and, suddenly, our data became impossible to recover. I sent a written mail with acknoledgment of receipt, and, after 10 days, the quality assurance manager was not even aware of this mail ! |
This company scammed me out of $840. They are not legitimate. Don't believe anything they say! Beware! |
I also used Fields Data Recovery and they did not deliver on what they promised. I am now in the process of taking them to small claims court. Dont use them !! There are true recovery companies out there, read reviews before handing over your money. |
We did get our hard drive back at a BIG cost. We sent it to Illinois and was charged 2x the quoted price. Then were charged a foreign currency fee. Did anyone else know that Illinois does not use US currency? Get a personal referal or any company you send your hard drive to.
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THIS IS A SCAM COMPANY... PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE DO NOT ENGAGE THEM FOR ANY SERVICES. I've been dealing with this "second largest company" for over a month and got nothing but a bill for $400. They lie about everything. PLEASE DO NOT DEAL WITH THEM |
Rapid Data Recovery
*Falsche Versprechen bei der Datenrette - German TV Report about Fields Data Recovery ** Who calls me The Payment Protection Insurance Claim Cold Calling Complaints
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