Photoshopped Facebook photo of a winning lottery ticket (Nolan Daniels via Facebook, http://aka.ms/facebookPowerball)

'Winning' lottery ticket on Facebook is a big, fat, dirty fake

11/30/2012

Just as general relativity was only a theory until Einstein proved it, Friday saw the "Facebook users are incredibly gullible" theory become a proven scientific FACT. Nolan Daniels posted a Photoshopped picture of a "winning" Powerball lottery ticket on Thursday, offering $1 million to a random person who shared the image. Less than 24 hours later, more than 600,000 people had, despite it being a huge fake (and a bad one — the numbers are all mixed up, but genuine tickets list them in ascending order). Morons. But we can't write any more: We need to email this awesome guy in Nigeria. [Source]

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