Tips to get money at some data emergency centers

Copy additional data to your hard drive or create more diseases to charge more. Guests who do not agree to correct will also have to pay an initial inspection fee that is not returned.

" Most of these centers offer attractive information recovery costs, only about a few hundred VND per MB of capacity ," said Nguyen Dang Duc, a technician at a computer store Dat Viet and Binh Thanh. , HCMC said. Many people want to save important information such as text, images . This is a very light file format.

After the hard drive (HDD) is checked, a folder tree image file will be sent to the customer so that they can select the folder they want to retrieve, with a price notice. If you do not agree to edit, you can still get your HDD back.

To enhance their reputation, these data rescue stores all claim that from the beginning it is possible to recover information for all cases, even the worst. They also provide peace of mind for customers when requesting to record 3 file or folder names in their hard drive to compare after checking.

Mr. Duc also said: " Such centers often show off with strange, sounding techniques such as 'technology from the American Academy of Sciences', or 'super-telegraphic data rescue'. . But the truth is that these "scientific inventions" even people with long-standing profession don't know . "

The way to get money from guests

Artwork: webdesign . " These centers, before receiving information recovery, often require customers to sign a regulation with a lot of ambiguous terms: the initial inspection fee is about VND 50,000 will not be returned, the cost of rescue. The data is only a few hundred dong per Megabyte (MB) but it is noted that this price does not include decoding fees . ", said Vo Van Hau, IT technician in Thu Duc, Ho Chi Minh City.

According to Mr. Nguyen Dang Duc, nearly 100% of hard drives brought into these centers are encrypted by employees here to get more money from customers. Especially for the files that the testers see that it is especially important for the guests, the price is "shouted" quite high depending on the appearance of the "sop" customer.

Some popular hard drive diseases are also "permitted" to calculate repair costs such as surface scratches, muscle burns, chip explosion . When it is difficult to recover, the store is confident to offer High and unbelievable quotes, 500 million or 1 billion, for customers to automatically withdraw. If the customer still agrees to this price, the store then applies a familiar sentence: your hard drive has been damaged too badly, we cannot recover the data in this case and the HDD is returned.

Mr. Hau revealed that some stores used to copy all data after recovering to their machines and then erasing the entire hard drive. The next step is to give a very high price to force the "victim" to spend money. If the guest does not accept and take the hard drive to another center, there is no way to recover but must return.

For data that can't push prices high, the way to get money is to copy the 'junk' file into the directory that the customer has chosen to recover. The folder size is high and of course the cost in MB will increase accordingly.

Those who do not know if they bring the machine to the workers only to recover the data, the risk of boiled condition is also very high.

Attractive prices are always at risk

According to Nguyen Dang Duc, I should bring the HDD to recover when the data is really important. Data recovery charges on the market today are very high, ranging from 500 thousand to 3 million. Attractive quotation places are always suspicious because most of their revenue is focused on collecting the initial inspection fee.

Consumers should choose reputable places through reference from many sides. Often these stores do not charge the initial inspection fee, only take money when they have successfully recovered the data for guests. And usually to avoid ambiguity, they always have a specific price list based on the capacity of the hard drive, regardless of the saved data and do not add any other costs because the file is too heavy or bad. encode. In addition, some cases because the disk is too heavy to recover the information, it is clear from the beginning that the disk surface is broken due to strong impact, scratching .