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Hong Kong SFC Flags Four Fraud Websites Reported by Licensed Platform DFX Labs

Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission said licensed virtual asset trading platform DFX Labs Company Limited reported four websites, including “dfx[.]cn” and “dfxcn[.]com”, as fraudulent. The regulator has added the sites to its list of suspicious virtual asset trading platforms. The SFC published the notice on September 30.

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That the report originated from a licensed platform rather than the SFC's own surveillance points to a maturing reporting channel, where regulated venues act as frontline sensors against impersonation scams. The affected parties are prospective users who may mistake lookalike domains for the real DFX Labs, and the platform itself, whose brand is the vector. The open question is whether platform-initiated flags become a routine pipeline feeding the SFC's suspicious list, or remain one-off cases.

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