Companies who try to spam this forum and others

[lcoughey]

I'm not going to provide any links to these companies and don't recommend purchasing their products or using their services. They are relentless with constant spam and fake posts in order to fool unsuspecting buyers into thinking that their posts are real end user recommendations.

Data recovery labs forum spammers:
1. Stellar (the worse offender to inspire this list in the first place)
2. Data Engineers (India)
3. Sheffield Data Recovery, Leeds Data Recovery, Nottingham Data Recovery and all the other names that they go by, based on their virtual office locations
4. Now Data Recovery
5. Data Recovery Dubai
6. UAE Data Recovery
7. Salvage Data

Data recovery software forum spammers:
1. Stellar (the worse offender to inspire this list in the first place)
2. Tenorshare
3. Disk Drill
4. Recuva
5. SysInfoTools
6. Indya Software
7. FoneCope
8. DataRecovo
9. MiniTool
10. Bitwar
11. ESoft Tools
12. Wondershare
13. Stillbon Software
14. Zook Data Recovery Software
15. Converter Tools
16. RecoverIT
17. Hetman

[fzabkar]

I had a bit of fun with Bitwar:

https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads ... g.3570251/

[lcoughey]

I had a bit of fun with Bitwar:

https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads ... g.3570251/

Too bad that it would appear that the bitwar spammer comments are no longer showing on that thread.

[fzabkar]

It appears that using generic, royalty free (?) images is common practice, even on Western web sites.

For example, the following image (from Wondershare's testimonials) appears in billions of search results:

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en-AU& ... 80&bih=951

Perhaps there is some perceived psychological advantage in associating a text based comment with a human face, even if it isn't real. However, In my case it only served to consolidate my skepticism.

[Joep]

Here's some insight in how this type of companies gets their reviews: https://www.disktuna.com/wondershare-re ... geeks-com/

[Alfred_Pennyworth]

Looks like all major players in Data recovery. Don't forget to put, DiskTuna, DMDE, and GetDataBack on the list.

[Joep]

Looks like all major players in Data recovery. Don't forget to put, DiskTuna, DMDE, and GetDataBack on the list.

Point us to one example where Runtime plugs it's software. Point us to one example where Dmitry Sidorov plugs his software. Point us to one example where I plug my tool without me actually helping solve a problem, where I just spam links like we see Stellar, WonderShare or CleverFiles do.

Give me one example of me or the others you accuse of practices like I describe in my blogpost (https://www.disktuna.com/wondershare-re ... geeks-com/).

Then I am not even addressing false claims yet. Send me a Stellar Repair for Photo key + an actual half grey JPEG that it can actually repair. Because I have tried with many of Jpegs and none of them can be repaired using Stellar's repair tool despite it's claims (https://www.disktuna.com/wondershare-st ... -scams-or/).

Yes, I do myself participate in forums and threads where people ask for help to address this type of issues once I determined JPEG-Repair can actually help, example https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/61181653. Often I make repaired files available to OP free of charge.

[lcoughey]

Why would we list 3 companies whom we have never seen spam from and are regularly recommended by actual data recovery professionals?

All companies and programs listed on the OP are there because they frequently attempted to spam this forum or other forums that I'm personally active on.