text: is ashworth online college a real college or a hoax? i want to attend this college and get my degree but i want to make sure its not a hoax. nnnooooooo!!!!!! dont do it!!! i thought that is was a good idea to sign up because you go at your own pace.  so i researched it a little bit and their website looked legit and they said they were accredited.  so i sent them a check for 5 dollars and they said they would get me started and i would make payments to them every month. after i gave them my check, they asked if they could record my voice saying that i want to join the school.  so i did.  well, they send me my first semester's materials, and they are like middle school literature.  and they even have books that look like they were photocopied.  so in reading the material, it says that if you don't send them your first exams in a certain amount of time, they will drop you from the school, so i didn't send anything to them for a few months because during this time, i found that they are accredited but the president of their board that does the accredidation, is the president of the school.  they accredited themselves.  also, there is a difference between regionally accredited and nationally accredited.  i found out that after i had already given them the 5 dollars, that most colleges would not let me transfer credits from ashworth.  most of the colleges had never even heard of ashworth.  now ashworth college is trying to come after me for 9 thousand dollars for the whole semester!! when speaking to others, i was told that this one person did an aerial view of the address and all that was there was a warehouse.  there was no school like there was in the pictures on their website.  the same person who did this, called the college and said he was in the area and he wanted to come by and meet some of the staff and they told him he couldnt there are quite a few people including myself who are interested in opening a class action law suit against the school for fraud and deception.  please, please, please, dont do it!!!