Claim: Nolan Daniels , one of the two winners of the record $587.5 million Powerball jackpot, is giving away $1 million to the millionth person to post a particular photo to Facebook of him holding up his winning ticket.Examples: a male named Nolan Daniels from Florida Ridge Fl is posting he will give a million dollars to the millionth person who shares his picture on Facebook. is this true? This guy on Facebook says he won Powerball and if you share his photo, he will give 1 million to a random individual. The picture features the user in question holding the "winning" Powerball ticket.Origins:At the close of November 2012, the record Powerball jackpot was hit to the tune of $587.5 million. One of the winning tickets was sold in Missouri, and the other in Arizona.
Since the drawing, a couple in Missouri bearing the surname of Hill has been identified as the holders of one of two winning tickets. The other winner has yet to be identified, but surveillance from an Exxon Station in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, shows a heavyset
African-American man checking his ticket with the clerk. Reporting from the ABC affiliate in that area attests that this man showed his ticket, which contained all the winning numbers in the proper order, to both the clerk and others in the filling station and admitting that he bought the ticket in Arizona.As stated in the Powerball FAQ: "The tickets print the white ball numbers (the first five numbers) in numerical order."
So, once again, there is no free lunch to be had, no free-spirited $1 million giveaway from some hithertofore unheard of overjoyed Powerball winner. Instead, it's all just a hoax intended to lure the gullible into chasing a non-existent rainbow and in the process bestowing upon its perpetrator some cheap Internet fame.
Last updated:30 November 2012
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