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Rusty - no.
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I'd also put cryogenically treating fretwire to stop corrosion firmly in the snake oil/bullshit category.
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I had a batch of guitars that I had to rework for a manufacturer that had a tarnish that looked remarkably like rust - I think they were very low quality nickel/steel - with more steel than nickel.
But these, as @ICBM says, these were cheap nasty guitars.
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Well I don't know how it would happen (I'm not much of a metallurgist) but it sounds dodgy in guitar terms:
If the fretwire magically becomes more resistant to wear, it must be harder or stronger in some way. Surely that would affect the sound. Wouldn't this annoy purists? (The type who would not want to go as far as stainless steel anyway.)
The only possible way I can think of this working is something vaguely like case hardening in steels. If you rapidly plunge the material in very cold material, the outer layers will contract first, and be stretched (and either "stress relieved" or "work hardened") because the core is still warm, for a very short time.
This sounds a bit tenuous though... it would depend on the exact circumstances in which it's done - I would want to see proof really, not just the theoretical argument I gave above.