There are many organizations in this modern age that specifically providing Bitcoin and other crypto asset recovery services, but most turned out to be scam. There has been many people that complained using online recovery services after their wallet was hijack or Bitcoin stolen from them, in which they were later scammed the by the recovery service provider. Before help can be rendered by these organizations, the victim will have to pay certain amount of bitcoin or money, this makes the field attractive for scammers as a haven to scam.
I was wondering how bitcoin sent to scammers can be recovered when transaction are not reversible when confirmed, or how victim will send Bitcoin or altcoin to hackers to recover back devices under malware attack. This even has been used by hackers to shot down office equipments like hospital in which ransom will be demanded for the offices to be able to access their equipments under ransomware attacks. How will Bitcoin or altcoin be recovered when transaction is confirmed already while the scammers will even wait longer enough to have more confirmations before the ransomware removal.
But, I think there are cases recovery services might be useful, like a damaged computer which contain the wallet without any offline backup. This case, recovery service can be used. They will be able to get into the computer to know if there are ways they can extract out the wallet into another device. Some would have been successful but many remian unsuccessful which would likely be unsuccessful forever. In this case, the Bitcoin or money that can be demanded for by the recovery services will be very costly in total, which means it will be useful for those that have thousands or millions worth of crypto to recover, otherwise, it will not be useful.
So, the questions is, are their lists of legit recovery services for the above case purpose?Furthermore, prevention is better than cure. Wallet backup are very necessary, this can be wallet file, private key and seed phrase backup, and if passphrase is enabled, it also need backup. There are good ways to back up the these private information. It can be written on paper, laminated paper, metalic sheet, triplicating it and be stored in different locations not accessible to attackers and not vulnerable to damages. Or, seed phrase storage can be bought.
Store your bitcoin seed / private key safely (Water, Fire, Shock-proofThere has been several cases of recovery services scam in which the scammed victim will be scammed again, secondly by the fake recovery service provider. So that is why we need to be careful, using a legit wallet and other legit service, know about crypto field very well, knowing how to protect yourselves from scam.
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