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A dire warning landed in the inboxes of many international Coinbase customers last year: Unless they “immediately” removed their assets from the cryptocurrency trading platform, the company would sell off their holdings and turn the proceeds over to the state of Wyoming.

“At that point,” the email advised, “your sole recourse to reclaim your liquidated assets will be to contact that government agency and file a claim for the property.”

The message appeared to have come from Coinbase itself. But in a crypto space that’s rife with scammers, the idea that customers in places like Venezuela, South Africa and Kazakhstan were at risk of having their as

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