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  • 2018-10-30 (xsd:date)
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  • See the post claiming a big lottery winner wants to give you $1,000 via PayPal? It's a hoax (en)
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  • If someone offering you $1,000 on Facebook for sharing a post sounds too good to be true, it probably is. So, sorry to the 84,000 people (at least) that shared this Oct. 29 Facebook post from Bill Rogers . As some of you may know I am the recent $3.4 million lotto winner. I’d like to spread some positivity so I’m sending $1,000 to the first 100k people that share this☺️☺️☺️ Comment done after you shared, the post said. It included a picture of a PayPal account with a balance of $3.46 million. This post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .) It’s a hoax. There are two ways to tell. First, the easy way. Multiply $1,000 by 100,000 and you get $100 million -- not the $3.4 million Rogers said he had. Second, if you performed a reverse Google image search of the picture Rogers included, you would find that this image, and gimmick, has been used before. The Twitter user @calebproera used the same image in a post Oct. 22 . It popped up on a different Facebook timeline with the same message on Oct. 8 . And if you searched the caption Rogers wrote, you would see the same post from a different Facebook user Oct. 8 and another version from a different Twitter user Oct. 6 . And, for good measure, again on from Sept. 16 . Sorry if you thought the free money was on its way. It’s not. This claim rates Pants on Fire. (en)
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