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On the screenshow of Humayun Khan's tweet it says "Click here to create an account". Does this mean that every email address that's not signed up with Coinbase yet will also get an email?

I think this is by design. If the email address is not associated with a registered coin base account, you get a link to sign up and receive money.

The email content copy should include a footer with a link to get out of receiving such emails. Since they are sending emails to "unverified" email address there is a good chance they get marked as spam by recipients there by damaging their email sender reputation.

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