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There aren’t, actually, at least not in the US. When an account has no activity on it for long enough, it gets liquidated and transferred to the state until someone with a rightful ownership claim comes forward to claim it. This is called “escheatment.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escheat




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