Verdict up front: 1PipFix did not fail a regulator’s test. It answered to a regulator that, on the Forex Peace Army’s findings, had been invented for the purpose — a body called NFACS whose website the FPA says was copied from a Russian regulator’s. One operator, five broker brands, one house-made watchdog. Two of those five domains have now vanished from the registry entirely; two more were bought by somebody new in the last four months.
Verified evidence (checked 8 September 2026)
- The regulator was manufactured. The FPA’s Scam Investigations Committee reports that FxSystems presented NFACS (“National Forex Accreditation Coalition Safeguard”) as its regulator, and found that “the NFACS website was copied from the Russian regulator at Crofr.ru. NFACS appears to have been created only to provide the appearance that FxSystems and its subsidiary brokers were regulated.” That is the FPA’s investigation and its wording — we are reporting it, not claiming it as our own finding.
- Five brands, one owner. The FPA records that around 2011 FxSystems took ownership of 1PipFix, 1LotSTP, 2PipFixed, 4RunnerForex and LoyalForex, and blacklists them together. Its file on 1PipFix also warns that “a large number of fake positive reviews have come in for this company”.
- Two of the domains no longer exist. We queried the .com registry directly on 8 September 2026: 1pipfix.com and 2pipfixed.com return no registration record at all — not merely abandoned, but dropped out of the register.
- Two others were re-registered this year. 1lotstp.com was created afresh on 22 May 2026 (registrar Name SRS AB) and 4runnerforex.com on 24 August 2026 (GMO Internet Group). 4runnerforex.com now serves an unrelated Japanese-language blog carrying consumer-loan and trading-product promotions. fxsystems.com is likewise a later registration, created 24 August 2016 and updated again in August 2026.
- What that means in practice. A blacklisted broker name does not stay buried. It expires, goes back on sale, and is re-registered by whoever wants the traffic that old complaints, forum threads and reviews still send to it. Sources: Forex Peace Army review files for 1PipFix, 1LotSTP, 4RunnerForex and FX Systems and the committee’s NFACS thread; Verisign .com registry records for all five domains; the live 4runnerforex.com site — all read 8 September 2026.
| Related Investigation The fake-regulator finding is the FPA’s. The registry facts about the five domains are ours, checked directly. |
Investors, Take Note Verify the regulator before you verify the broker. A watchdog nobody has heard of is not oversight — it is stationery. |
Read This Before You Invest A brand you research today may be a different owner’s property than the one the reviews describe. Check the domain’s age. |
What was 1PipFix?
A retail forex brand that began as an introducing broker and, by late 2011, sat inside the FxSystems group alongside four sister brands. It advertised tight fixed spreads — the name is the pitch — and pointed customers who asked about oversight towards NFACS.
Why an invented regulator is the most dangerous trick of all
An unlicensed broker at least leaves an honest gap: nobody is supervising this. A fabricated regulator fills that gap with something worse than nothing. It hands the cautious investor — the one who does check — a website to land on, an acronym to read and a page saying the firm is accredited. The check is performed and comes back clean, because the answer was written by the people who wrote the question.
The defence is one step longer than most people take. Do not verify the broker against the regulator it names; verify the regulator. Is it named in a country’s financial law? Does it publish enforcement decisions? Does a government domain acknowledge it? A supervisor that exists only where the broker points you is not a supervisor.
What we could not verify
We did not re-run the FPA’s comparison between the NFACS site and Crofr.ru — both are long gone — so we rely on the FPA’s published finding and say so rather than dressing it up as our own. We also could not establish who now owns 1lotstp.com or 4runnerforex.com, and make no claim that the new registrants are connected to the original operators.
Check it for yourself
Nothing above depends on trusting us. Search the name on Google, ask ChatGPT, and run the register checks named in the evidence box. A regulator warning takes about a minute to confirm on the regulator’s own website, and that minute is the cheapest due diligence available to any investor.
For this group specifically: run a WHOIS or RDAP lookup before funding any broker. A creation date of a few weeks ago behind a brand with years of reviews means the reviews and the website are not describing the same business.
If you have already deposited
Act on paper, not on hope. Save every screenshot, chat log, email, payment reference and wallet address before the platform can close your account — once access goes, so does your evidence. Report the loss to your national financial regulator and to your police force’s fraud unit. Tell your bank or card issuer immediately; where funds moved by card or transfer within recent weeks, a recall or chargeback is sometimes still possible. If you paid in cryptocurrency, the transaction cannot be reversed, but the receiving address is permanent evidence and exchanges can sometimes freeze onward movement.
Then brace for the second approach. Victims of investment fraud are frequently contacted again by people offering to recover the money for an upfront fee, sometimes posing as lawyers, regulators or the platform’s own compliance department. That is a second fraud aimed at the same victim. No legitimate recovery service, and no regulator anywhere, asks for a payment before returning your funds.
The bottom line
Five brands under one roof, pointing at a regulator the FPA found had been copied into existence. Two of those domains are now gone from the registry and two have been re-registered within the last four months. Check the regulator before the broker, and check the domain before the brand.
Reviewed by Jenny Loral, Licensed Fraud Investigation Agent, Investor Protection Unit — Pinkerton. Corrections: support@reclaimdc.com.
