500,000 Facebook Users Chase Fake $1 Million From Powerball ‘Winner’

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    What would make more than 500,000 Facebook users share one guy’s photoshopped picture of a ticket with the winning Powerball numbers? Raise your little pinky, do your best Dr. Evil voice, and say it with me now: one meeeellion dollars.

    “Looks like I won’t be going to work EVER!” user Nolan Daniels posted to the social network on Thursday night, captioning the fake ticket photo above. “Share this photo and I will give a random person 1 million dollars!”

    The numbers were a fairly obvious Photoshop job, and the notion of someone who just won $239 million inviting all sorts of trouble by posting such a picture on Facebook is faintly ridiculous. But to confirm the fakery, as Gawker points out, you need only know that Powerball tickets are printed in numerical order.

    Read more http://mashable.com/2012/11/30/facebook-powerball-fake-shares/
     

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