A disgruntled Dogecoin owner is leading a $5 million class-action lawsuit against Coinbase, claiming the crypto giant bamboozled he and others into paying to enter a sweepstakes to win the novelty cryptocurrency that they could have entered for free.
In a complaint filed in San Francisco federal court, David Suski says he paid $100 to enter Coinbase’s “Trade Doge, Win Doge” contest, which the company launched in June shortly after adding the cryptocurrency to its exchange. Suski says he wouldn’t have paid this if Coinbase had clearly disclosed there was another way to enter the contest—namely by mailing in a 3×5 index card with the participant’s name, address and birthday.
According to Suski, the marketing company hired by Coinbase to run the sweepstakes used “false and misleading” tactics to disguise the free-entry option. In particular, his complaint points to the design of the ad used to promote the contest—a design that put a link to the sweepstake rules in small, faint text.
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