Empty promises says Snopes: For an empty stomach

Thanks to the research @ http://www.snopes.com/ 'Rumor has it.' It is all about the forwarded email:

'YOU NEED NOT DIE FROM CANCER - CURE IS HERE,
WHY DIE FROM CANCER?
Cancer Treatment: ALWAYS EAT FRESH FRUIT ON AN EMPTY STOMACH.'

Extract from Snopes.com :
Claim:   Fruit must be eaten on an empty stomach in order for the body to absorb it properly.

SNOPE's find this as:

FALSE

Origins:   The item quoted above, typically titled "The Correct Way of Eating Fruits," has been circulating on the Internet since August 2001. It was written in 1998 by Devagi Sanmugam, a chef and culinary writer who lives in Singapore.

The Dr. Herbert Shelton mentioned in the e-mail was a well-known health educator and author who died in 1985. Dr. Shelton held a doctorate degree in naturopathy rather than medicine and was arrested numerous times for practicing medicine without a license.

As to the substance of the advice being proffered, the nutritional value of a piece of fruit is the same whether it's eaten on an empty stomach or after a meal. Beliefs regarding ingesting fruit unaccompanied by any other foodstuff and/or only on an empty stomach, appear to have come from various weight loss gurus, the earliest of which might be Harvey and Marilyn Diamond.

In the 1980s, part of the regimen advocated by the Diamonds, authors of Fit for Life, dictated that nothing but fruit and fruit juices be consumed before noon. (They believed the body has three natural cycles regarding its use of food: noon to 8 p.m. for eating and digestion, 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. for absorption and use, and 4 a.m. to noon for elimination of body wastes and food debris. Fruit in the morning — and nothing but fruit at that time — is therefore key Continue reading

My ad about a 2002 Chevy in Craiglist: Fake Spam Email

I am not alone to receive this fake blessing, you may also be one of those who are spammed--I neither have a van nor advertised for it in the New York's Craigslist. The message looks 100% genuine, and official:

Confirmation for Posting ID# 1779115062
Your ad, titled '2002 Chevrolet 3500 Express Van' has been posted as follows:
http://newyork.craigslist.com/ctd/1779115061.html (cars & trucks - by dealer)

Posts will appear in the list of postings and in search results in about 15 minutes.
If you have trouble finding your ad, please check our help page: [?]
Please log in into your account if you need to edit or delete your posting:
https://acount.craigslist.org/login

If you did not post this ad please change your account password asap:
https://acount.craigslist.org/login/chgpwd
For your protection please check our list of common scams.
Thanks for using craigslist!

A consumer protectionist, John Stark, reports the same fake email, read his experience (interestingly John and me received this email today, and we hereby advise you not to click on this fake email message):

Fun with craigslist

June 9th, 2010

Here’s a bogus e-mail that hit my inbox seconds ago. It asks me to verify the ad I supposedly posted for a 2002 Chevy van. Said ad, of course, does not exist. The game appears to be: Let’s get this guy’s craigslist password for fun and profit. But since I don’t have a craigslist account, the scheme didn’t work.

Read more: http://blogs.bellinghamherald.com/consumer/#ixzz0qPoGbEoT

Sachin Tendulkar's shell house -- Just Not True

I just received a forwarded, forward, with a catchy header: Fragile Luxury.

Googled, and found:

Sachin Tendulkar's New House - Not True - its SPAM says www.bharatwaves.com.

Hoax Confirmation: Tendulkar's 'shell house' designs a net hoax: India Today.

Plus, shell House Sachin Hoax here.

Noel, a Blogger (Cricket God - Sachin Tendulkar, God Of Cricket) states: "A new weird shell house designed for God Of Cricket Sachin Tendulkar by world famous Mexican architect Javier Senosiain."

See more here, on this shell house: Organic Architecture of Javier Senosiain.

Whereas, Sachin's fans keep circulating this nonstop;

http://sachinandcritics.com/, as well as, Sachin Tendulkar's Official website - www.tendulkaropus.com don't talk about it.

And, this is interesting: "Sachin denies having an account on Twitter: Don't follow his fake twitter account."

A Pathfinder To Detect Spam and Forwarded Email Scams

I have compiled a list of sites that help in detecting spam, scam, fake and fraud sites. Are there any more, or I am missing any important one, here:

• 419 BAITER
• Better Business Bureaus in Canada
• Blog of Scams
• Federal Trade Commission's website on spam email
• Forward scam emails to
• Fraud Aid
• Fraud Email Collection
• Fraud Email Gallery
• http://www.snopes.com/
• Indian Consumer Complaints Forum
• Legit or Scam?
• Museum of hoaxes
• Paypal Fake Emails
• PCQandA.com
• Rumor Detectives
• Scam Types dot Com
• Spam Laws
• Spam Scammers
• Stop Spam Email
• Thats Nonsense
• The Universal Seduction
• Tips To Detect Scam Websites
• Truth or Fiction
• Urban Legends

Has any one evaluated these sites?