Fake Winning Powerball Ticket On Facebook Is A Hoax, Liking Won’t Get You $1M
A fake winning Powerball ticket on Facebook, purported to be held by a young man named Nolan Daniels, has been circulating with a promise to give one million dollars to a lucky like-giver on the social network.
The fake winning Powerball ticket on Facebook, proudly held up by the bearded and smiling Daniels, indeed boasts the winning numbers from this week’s massive Powerball drawing.
However, the numbers on the fake winning Powerball ticket on Facebook are out of order, and must be in a certain arrangement to win — making the pic a hoax, and a sticky one at that.
The fake winning Powerball ticket on Facebook is the sort of thing that pops up after these massively hyped lottery wins with infinitesimally small chances of winning occur — something about the lotto hype really tugs at our human instinct to embrace magical thinking, and liking a pic on Facebook is easier even than going out and wasting a few bucks on a ticket that grants you a smaller crack at the big jackpot than you have at being legally put to death, as a for instance.
Facebook users are sharing the fake winning Powerball ticket on Facebook via the like function, and already, we’ve seen it crop up no less than 10 times in the past hour on our own Facebook feeds.
In the end, the fake winning Powerball ticket on Facebook doesn’t really harm anyone — it isn’t going to spam your friends without your consent, put malware on your computer or post obscene things to your wall.
But the fake winning Powerball ticket Facebook hoax is a bit cruel, considering that most who share it will be mocked by friends as well as the fact the trick preys on everyone’s desire to get a lucky break and maybe realize some lottery dreams — which isn’t going to happen to those lured by the prank.
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Posted: November 30, 2012
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Nov 30, 2012
They can be in ANY order, as long as the power-ball number is in the power-ball spot. Which it is. The question here on authenticity is whether the ticket is dated correctly. You can't tell. This ticket could have been purchased AFTER the number were pulled.
Nov 30, 2012
What the article is saying is that all tickets have the numbers *printed* on them in numerical order. It's not talking about the order in which they announced during the drawing. The two winning tickets will list the numbers as 5-16-22-23-29-Powerball 6. His are *not* in that order.
Dec 1, 2012
your wrong.. the power ball numbers are worth the max amount of money if they ARE IN ORDER. This comes from the Power Ball website. "The tickets print the white ball numbers (the first five numbers) in numerical order." and is in the FAQ section.
Dec 1, 2012
your wrong.. This comes from the Power Ball website. "The tickets print the white ball numbers (the first five numbers) in numerical order." and is in the FAQ section. So the ticket is printed in order which clearly, his is not.. busted*
Dec 1, 2012
Very wrong. Look at any Powerball series, with the exception of the Powerball number, they are always in ascending order from lowest number to highest number. The order of the numbers does not matter one bit, its the authenticity of the ticket.
Dec 1, 2012
plus that was a 2 $ ticket the winning ticket that was purchased is a 10$ ticket
Dec 1, 2012
It's not the numbers. It's the date he bought the ticket. He bought it after the powerball was announced. Shoddy reporting right there
Dec 1, 2012
I was responding to someone who has since deleted their post, but yes the order of the numbers is a *gigantic* red flag. Like I said before, a real ticket only has them printed in numerical order which this picture does not. Regarding the date of the ticket, it is the same day of the drawing and I don't know about where you live, but here it is still legal to buy tickets on the day of the drawing up until the drawing. There is no actual time on the ticket as far as I'm able to make out so you can't know whether or not the ticket was bought after the time of the drawing.
Dec 3, 2012
Million dollar scams on Facebook? Why am I not surprised?