Spotting fake LHFX sites and impersonator brokers: a 5-minute checklist

If you have arrived here from a search like "is lhfx legit" or "what happened to eaglefx", this article exists for you. The forex broker world has a long-standing impersonation problem: lookalike domains, fake support agents on Telegram, and operators who buy up defunct broker domains to funnel ex-customers somewhere new. This article gives you a five-minute checklist that works for any broker, including us.

For the short version, our official security page is at lhfx.com/security. It lists every domain we operate, every domain we do not, and the official email and social channels we use. Bookmark it.

The one rule that solves 80% of the problem

Type lhfx.com directly. Do not click through from emails or DMs.

If a domain is one character off, lhfx-trading.com, lhfx-asia.net, lhfx-official.com, lhfx.io, it is not us. The only official LHFX domain is lhfx.com. Two predecessor domains we acquired (cedarfx.com and longhornfx.com) redirect to lhfx.com. Everything else claiming to be LHFX is not LHFX.

How to verify any broker in five minutes

This works for every broker, not just LHFX. Spend the five minutes before you deposit, not after.

1. Check the MetaQuotes broker registry

MetaQuotes is the company that makes MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5. They license brokers to offer real MT4/MT5, and they publish the list of every licensed broker at their official broker registry. If the broker you are considering is not on that list, the "MetaTrader" they offer you is not a licensed copy, it is a re-skinned clone (sometimes called a grey label) that looks like MT4 or MT5 but is not.

This matters more than it sounds. A grey-label clone means the broker is operating outside MetaQuotes' terms, and any feature, fix, or update that real MT5 receives may not appear on the clone. It also means the platform you are trusting with your money is not the one regulators audit when they audit MT5.

LHFX is a direct MetaQuotes licensee running official MetaTrader 5. You can verify that on the MetaQuotes broker registry.

2. Check the broker's regulator on the regulator's own site

Every legitimate forex broker tells you who their regulator is. Most also display a license number. Both should be verifiable on the regulator's own public register, not on the broker's marketing pages.

The major regulator registers are public. Bookmark these:

• FSC Mauritius: public business database

• FSCA South Africa: FSP search

• CySEC (Cyprus): public register on their site

• FCA (UK): Financial Services Register

• ASIC (Australia): Professional Registers

LHFX is operated by Longhorn Ltd (FSC Mauritius license GB23202204) and LHFX SA (PTY) Ltd (FSCA license FSP 52816). Both look up in under 30 seconds on the registers above.

If a broker cannot point you at an entry on a real regulator's public register, treat that as the answer.

3. Check the broker's company registration

Real companies are registered somewhere. The broker should disclose the legal entity that operates them (something like "Acme Forex Ltd, registered in [country], registration number X"). Search that name on the company register for the relevant country. If the disclosed entity does not exist on a public register, or if no entity is disclosed at all, you are looking at a problem.

LHFX's operating entities are disclosed on every page of lhfx.com, in the footer.

4. Sanity-check the support channels

This is where most impersonation actually happens, not at the domain level, but in messaging apps.

Real broker support generally:

• Replies to tickets you opened from inside your account dashboard

• Emails from the broker's actual domain (@lhfx.com, not @gmail.com or @lhfx-support.com)

• Posts publicly on the broker's named official social accounts

Real broker support generally does not:

• DM you first on Telegram, WhatsApp, or Discord

• Ask for your password or 2FA code

• Ask you to send a deposit to a personal wallet address "on behalf of the broker"

• Charge you fees to "release" funds you have already deposited

If any of those happen, you are dealing with an impersonator, not the broker.

5. Check whether the broker accepts clients from jurisdictions where it is not authorised

This is the subtle one. A broker that aggressively accepts clients from countries where it holds no regulatory authorisation is telling you something about its risk appetite, specifically, that it is willing to operate outside the supervision of the regulator that protects you.

LHFX does not accept US clients because we are not US-regulated. We treat that as a binding constraint, not a sales problem. A broker that takes your US-resident signup despite holding no US authorisation is not protecting you; it is protecting its own deposit flow.

What to do if you used to be a CedarFX, EagleFX, or LonghornFX customer

LHFX acquired CedarFX (final signup 6 October 2024) and EagleFX (final signup 17 March 2025), and was the public rebrand of LonghornFX. If you were a customer at any of those three brokers, your account migrated to LHFX.

• CedarFX customers: details on the migration

• EagleFX customers: details on the migration

• LonghornFX customers: details on the migration

A short, important note on EagleFX: the domain eaglefx.com itself was not transferred to LHFX. The original operators retained it, and have since pointed it at a different broker that is not affiliated with LHFX, with the EagleFX you remember, or with any LHFX predecessor brand. If you typed eaglefx.com and landed somewhere that does not look like LHFX, you are not at LHFX, your account is at lhfx.com.

There are also two separate, unrelated impersonator domains, eaglefxportfolio.com and eaglefxbroker.com, that have no business relationship with LHFX, with the former EagleFX, or with any LHFX predecessor brand. We list both on our security page so other ex-customers do not get caught.

If you have been contacted by a "recovery agent"

Recovery scams target people who have lost money at any broker, scam or real. The pattern is identical every time:

1. Stranger reaches out on social media or messaging app

2. They claim to be able to "recover" your lost funds, for a fee or a percentage

3. They want the fee upfront, or want access to your account "to help"

4. Once paid, they disappear, or escalate by demanding more

Real brokers do not contact other brokers' clients about lost funds. Real regulators do not message you on Telegram. Anyone claiming otherwise is running this scam.

If it happens, do not engage. Do not pay. Block, report to the platform the message came from, and contact your bank or card issuer about disputing the original loss through proper channels, not through whoever DM'd you.

Bookmark the official LHFX security page

The full affiliation table, the official channels we use, and the impersonation patterns we see most often are all on the LHFX security page. It is updated as new lookalike domains and impersonator accounts surface. If you spot one we have not listed, email help@lhfx.com with a URL or screenshot and we will add it.

TL;DR

• Only official LHFX domain: lhfx.com

• Cross-check on the MetaQuotes broker registry

• Cross-check on the FSC Mauritius and FSCA South Africa public registers

• Real support does not DM you first or ask for your password

• If you came from CedarFX, EagleFX, or LonghornFX, you are at the right broker, your account is at lhfx.com

• See the full security page for the live affiliation table