> This was in the last issue of "P C World" magazine. It does work!

  This is a widespread hoax that has been circulating for at least a
year.  The specific variant that claims it was "in the last issue"[*]
seems to have first appeared 2-4 months ago.
  If you go searching for this text on Google, you'll find two
interesting things -- the text has been forwarded, rarely edited,
form an anonymous source, and many of the copies posted to the web
and indexed by Google have since been taken down once their hosts
learned of the hoax.

David Gillett


[*] One of the ways that email hoaxes get perpetuated and passed
along is by using non-specific wording that makes them always sound
current -- "last week", "just yesterday", "in the last issue" --
rather than an actual DATE, which would make it obvious that the
content is getting old.  Indeed, this kind of wording (which
coincidentally makes it difficult to confirm whether the message is
true or not) is a virtually sure sign that the message is a hoax.
  A proper citation of PC World magazine as a source would specify
the date or volume/number of the issue in question.  Without those,
it is effectively impossible to verify the claim that PC World
published, or in any way vouches for, this "trick".

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