Erik Bragg, a able skateboarder and filmmaker, acquaint a account of his “winning” admission on Instagram anon afore midnight, forth with the explanation “OMG I WON 1.5 BILLION!!!!” Though the photo has been admired added than 87,000 times — and been appointed by a host of Bragg-imitators abroad — there’s affluence to advance it’s fake: Among added things, the admission includes placeholders for added amateur after the amateur themselves, and there are inconsistencies in the ticket’s blooming accomplishments that advance portions accept been cloned and edited out. (Asked by the Intersect why he acquaint the Photoshopped ticket, Bragg responded alone “call me sir, god abuse it!”)
Another Instagrammer, application the name “adamthagod,” promised to breach his accomplishment with girls who DMed him. But an assay of the photo’s compression abstracts suggests that it’s either a screenshot or was adored from addition location. And while the Instagrammer claims to reside in Chino, Calif., his Soundcloud and Facebook pages analyze him as the Toronto-based rapper Adam Raine. (Canadians are acceptable to play Powerball, but it’s cryptic whether they could in fact aggregate their winnings.)
Meanwhile, on Twitter, some fakers didn’t even bother to pretend they came from California, Florida or Tennessee, the three states area the acceptable tickets were sold: One guy with an Ohio admission promised $1,500 to anniversary of the aboriginal 2,000 humans who retweeted it (he’s got a way to go, with alone 450 RTs), and a amateur in Texas arrive followers to “HMU,” or hit me up, if they capital $1 million. (His deride is calmly accoutrement the date of the ticket.) Addition man, aswell in Ohio, promised $100,000 to every being who RTed or “favorited” his ticket, whose numbers are mysteriously out of order.
This is, in added words, a actual archetypal abundance of the Facebook betrayal scam, which promises abundance to those believing souls who repost a adumbral message.
How can you abstain accepting taken in? Well, the acceptable tickets, if and if they are acquaint online, will appear from California, Florida or Tennessee. They will be anachronous on or afore Jan. 13, the numbers will be ordered progressively, and they will attending agnate to these.
That said, adeptness lotto winners — if such humans abide — won’t column online at all: One of the best moves lotto winners can make, financially, is to break bearding and abstain the blitz for handouts.
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