- Joined
- Apr 15, 2010
- Messages
- 212,768
- Likes
- 821
- Points
- 113
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/