1) "I should hope not... the clients should be sending you a "hash" extracted from their wallet.dat file which you can then try and bruteforce using hashcat etc."
- And what next? Suppose we were sent a wallet "hash" (for Hashcat software) or "mkey" (for Thegrideon software), we found a password, and then what?
How can we harm a client if we don’t have his wallet? Why are you writing nonsense? Ask Dave, there were his answers to this question longtime ago!
2) "But you are now claiming that you don't get wallets, but in the very first post in this thread, you said:
Quote from: walletrecovery on April 18, 2020, 12:58:33 PM
Wallets are sent to us to check the availability of private keys inside,
so we can confirm whether this wallet is real or not, but we are worried about our wallets."
- Yes, you are absolutely right this is our additional service for those who want to buy a wallet from a private person and be sure that they will not be deceived and they will not sell an empty wallet.
In Russia, there are very few clients who have forgotten the password, they are not there or they have ended. Therefore, we came up with an additional service, while it is completely free.
There are many scammers on the Russian forum who sell "wallet.dat" files, so we opened the topic
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5240546.0 to guarantee a clean deal.
Only in this case we get wallets from people, usually wallets that no one can open for a long time and they are sold everywhere by everyone, for example, on this site allprivatekeys dot com
In principle, we can’t harm the client in any way, we can only harm scammers who, because of us, cannot sell air to gullible people,
therefore these scammers complain about us to the moderator and, as you can see, we have a -1 point in the trust.
it seems to me that you are asking this question for your "recovery service" in which case it makes no sense to "load the wallet in the bitcoin client" because while doing recovery or brute forcing password all you need to do is to work with the content of the wallet file and that happens in your own program that is separate and different from the client that wallet file belonged to.
in which case it is up to you to know how to handle the file and make sure there is nothing malicious in it. you should ask this question from the developer who create the program that you are supposedly using to "recover wallets".
otherwise i don't see any reason why you should even have other people's wallet files in first place.
THANK YOU
If there were options for different wallet programs, then there would not be this topic.
But you can open and create wallet.dat from different program such as Bitcoin Knots and fork of Bitcoin Core (usually for altcoin though)
THANK YOU
"percenter"
We have nothing to do with this account, the person was fired last month.