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I avoided this exact scam. The most important thing is to never trust an incoming phone number. If they can't give you a publicly posted phone number that you can call inbound, they are a scammer.

Google has dozens of properties and it is easy to generate an email from one of them that seems to confirm the attacker's identity. Never trust any of these to identify a legitimate representative.

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I too avoided it; I had an interesting interaction with the (American) call center scammer -- he called, said his story; he gave me a callback number when asked; I asked him for a web page I could verify a callback number. He quickly rattled off a legitimate Coinbase webpage URL, I believe their ToS page, which does include a phone number. He then hung up rather quickly.

Sadly for the scammers, that number didn't match. But, I note it was part of his script to sound confident and give a working URL. Pretty strong.

They frequently have nicely done webpages, which have this phone number on them. So you need to find the URL yourself.

It's already hard to verify if a phone number is legitimate, and I think it will get harder. And on the other hand, easier to get a search engine AI to incorrectly spit out the wrong number.

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