Why would you think it was fake? Are you sure that this is your backup or this is another wallet.dat file that was selling on the market or get them free from any download site?


It seems no one yet mention this tool? There is a way to brute-force the wallet.dat if you can't remember the exact password of your wallet.dat you can brute-force it using this tool "BTCrecovery tool"

I hope that you know some parts of the password because if not it might take years before you can find the exact password.


Be careful on this site it's new and it's not safe to share the wallet.dat file to unknown or newbie users like this.

If you want a well-known and I think legit service to recovering wallet passwords I will suggest this https://walletrecoveryservices.com