Thousands of people have been sharing a picture of a guy holding a lottery ticket on their Facebook pages since Thursday night.
The caption of the picture was
“Looks like I won’t be going to work EVER!!!! Share this photo and I will give a random person 1 million dollars!”
So like every hopeful person on the planet, 450,000 people shared this public picture hoping to be the lucky winner of the $ 1 million.
What they didn’t know was the post is reportedly a hoax.
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 public photo, which was shared at about 10 p.m. Thursday evening and had received 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.”
But the post was enough to fool a lot of people, even after a winner in Missouri came forward, and video footage of the alleged second winner surfaced.
Powerball has yet to confirm a second winner of the historic jackpot. The remaining winning ticket was bought in Arizona.