Exhibit 23.1
CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
The Board of Directors and Shareholders
Four Oaks Fincorp, Inc.
Four Oaks, North Carolina:
We consent to the reference to our firm under the caption “Experts” and to the incorporation herein by reference of our report dated March 30, 2012, with respect to the consolidated financial statements of Four Oaks Fincorp, Inc. and subsidiary (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2011 and 2010, and for each of the years then ended included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011.
/s/ Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP
Raleigh, North Carolina
March 30, 2012