lkyexch.com was an impersonation phishing page with the bare title "LKY" and a domain name that reads like a crypto exchange. It targeted people looking to trade or store cryptocurrency, presenting generic crypto branding rather than one recognizable company. PhishDestroy first flagged it on 2026-09-11. The site has been offline since 2026-09-24, and its DNS was still inactive when we checked on 2026-10-19.
How the scam works
Pages like this copy the look of a trading platform so visitors believe they are dealing with a real service. Victims are typically asked to sign up, log in or link a wallet. Those credentials and wallet details then go to the operators. On exchange-style fakes, users may also be persuaded to deposit funds that never become withdrawable. A balance can appear to grow on screen while the money is already gone, and further "fees" are often demanded before any payout.
Evidence
On 2026-09-20, sixteen of 89 VirusTotal engines classified the domain as malicious. They included BitDefender, ESET, Fortinet, G-Data, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Gridinsoft, alphaMountain.ai and the Vietnamese anti-scam group Chong Lua Dao. Agreement across that many unrelated vendors makes a false positive unlikely. urlscan.io independently returned a malicious verdict and matched the page to generic crypto branding. The domain also appears in four AlienVault OTX threat pulses, alongside its listing on the PhishDestroy blocklist.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered through Name.com, Inc. on 2025-08-25, more than a year before we detected it. Holding a domain that long before using it can help it pass reputation filters that distrust newly created names. The site was hosted on Amazon cloud infrastructure in the US. It used a free, automatically issued Let's Encrypt certificate, so the padlock in the browser said nothing about whether the operator was legitimate.
What to do
If you deposited funds on this site, stop sending money and refuse any request for unlock, tax or withdrawal fees, since paying more will not release anything. Record your transaction IDs and report them to your exchange or wallet provider and to local police. Change any password you entered there, as well as the password on any account that reuses it, and turn on app-based 2FA. If you connected a wallet, revoke the token approvals it granted and move any remaining assets to a fresh address. Defenders should block the domain and check DNS and proxy logs for visits made before 2026-09-24.
Saved certificate metadata. Certificate dates without a timezone are shown as stored. Transport encryption does not establish that the site is trustworthy.
Primary outcomeDNS 非アクティブreason: DNS NXDOMAIN80% confidence
Attributionsource: Dns Cache
Evidence layersAvailability: DNS inactiveContent: UnreachableDNS: NXDOMAINRegistration: Unknown
Latest HTTP observation不明Probe Inconclusive20%2026-10-19 01:16:22 UTC
RDAP registration不明
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-09-23 10:01:55 UTCcurrent episode first observed: 2026-09-30 16:14:55 UTCobserved RIP window: 2026-09-23 10:01:55 UTC → 2026-09-30 16:14:55 UTC · 174.22hmidpoint estimate ≈ 2026-09-27 01:08:25 UTC · precision low · basis bounded
Availability, content, DNS and registration are independent evidence layers. NXDOMAIN, an unreachable origin or missing content alone does not prove registrar action. A registrar or provider is credited only when a direct technical marker identifies that actor. Report causality is shown separately.
使用技術 · 3 identified
Cloudflare Browser Insights
AnalyticsRUM
Cloudflare Browser Insights is a tool that measures the performance of websites from the perspective of users.
Cloudflare is a web-infrastructure and website-security company, providing content-delivery-network services, DDoS mitigation, Internet security, and distributed domain-name-server services.
Keep original emails, receipts, messages and screenshots in a secure place. A factual timeline helps the receiving authority understand what happened. IC3 evidence guidance ↗
Payment records — if you paid, save the receipt, amount, date, payment provider and recipient details.
Your bank or payment provider — contact its fraud team promptly through official contact details if money or card information was exposed.
地元の警察 — たとえ直ちに行動を起こせなくても、公式な記録が残される
A report is not a guarantee of recovery or investigation, but prompt, accurate transaction data can help authorities and service providers trace the incident.
詐欺による金銭の返還を装った詐欺 — fraudsters pose as recovery agents and demand upfront fees. Never share a seed phrase or pay before independently verifying the provider
About this reportSources, observation dates and corrections
This report combines saved page captures, registration and network records, scanner results and PhishDestroy reporting history. Each source keeps its own observation date. Open a source report to inspect the original result.
The AI-assisted analysis was written on . It describes the evidence available at that time; later source checks can change.
A capture documents what was shown. A scanner result records that provider’s assessment at the time of its check. Neither a valid certificate nor a zero-detection result is a guarantee of safety.
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