"the International Accreditation Agency for Online Universities (IAAOU) and the Universal Council for Online Education Accreditation (UCOEA)"Curiously, both of these so-called accreditation bodies are themselves fakes. Their web sites were registered a mere 3 seconds apart from each other:
International Accreditation Agency for Online Universities (IAAOU)
Domain Name:IAAOU.ORG
Created On:29-Jul-2003 07:18:22 UTC
Registrant Name:Direct Privacy LTD Direct Privacy ID D8FA5
Universal Council for Online Education Accreditation
Domain Name:UCOEA.ORG
Created On:29-Jul-2003 07:18:19 UTC
Registrant Name:Direct Privacy LTD Direct Privacy ID 8C3E5
Domain Name:IAAOU.ORG
Created On:29-Jul-2003 07:18:22 UTC
Registrant Name:Direct Privacy LTD Direct Privacy ID D8FA5
Universal Council for Online Education Accreditation
Domain Name:UCOEA.ORG
Created On:29-Jul-2003 07:18:19 UTC
Registrant Name:Direct Privacy LTD Direct Privacy ID 8C3E5
And this was only a couple of weeks after the Belford University web site was registered, by the same company that registered the fake accreditation bodies:
Domain Name:BELFORDUNIVERSITY.ORG
Created On:09-Jul-2003 04:51:26 UTC
Registrant Name:Direct Privacy LTD Direct Privacy ID 1920C
Created On:09-Jul-2003 04:51:26 UTC
Registrant Name:Direct Privacy LTD Direct Privacy ID 1920C
Of course this isn't a coincidence. It's all the same bunch of crooks.
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SCAM! SCAM! SCAM! Be careful and do your homework on the net. This organization is a mail box / online school from Dubai or Fuljaharah UAE. You’ll never ever meet anyone in person you deal with. They say they will tailor and credit your life experience into a degree of your choice (BS), for a small fee of $300.00 you’ll get the degree in the mail that isn’t worth a damn to any hiring out it who’ll investigate college background.
The latest is they will authenticate your degree for a fee of $300.00 so that you will be more marketable toward an employer. 1st of all why would you have to authenticate your degree if the advertisements of their school says it’s accredited? By using the US educational bodies, which they fall short of say US educational bodies of Washington DC) I had to ask them repeatedly what bodies were they talking about? I challenged them to point out the difference of why I got my AS degree with City University, Renton WA, they never called me back to ask me if I wanted to have it “authenticated”? But for the fee of $300.00 Belford could make this all happen with-in 30 days.
If you’re like most hard working Americans, do your homework on the internet and do a thorough back ground check before you surrender your VISA or Master Card.
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