Facebook Powerball hoax goes viral

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A Facebook user named Nolan Daniels posted a photo of himself holding what appears to be a winning Powerball ticket from Wednesday’s record $588 million lottery drawing to his feed, according to the Savannah Morning News. The post is reportedly a hoax. The public photo, which was shared at about 10 p.m. Thursday evening and hadreceived more than 450,000 shares by Friday afternoon, included the statement: Looks like I won’t be going to work EVER!!!! Share this photo and I will give a random person 1 million dollars! Citing the Powerball website, Gawker points out that the numbers on the ticket were “not in numerical order… [as] a real ticket would be” and called the image “poorly photoshopped.”

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