On Thursday evening, a Facebook user named Nolan Daniels posted a poorly-photoshopped picture of his supposedly-winning Powerball ticket, along with the offer that he would give $1 million to a random person who shared it. So far it's been shared over 200,000 times, because Like-addled Facebook users will share anything no matter how obviously untrue it is. 
 
 When one of Daniel's friends asked if he was serious he replied "239 Million! I'm out celebrating now." He claims in the comments of the Facebook photo he was visiting a client in Fountain Hills, Arizona when he bought the winning ticket. 
 
 But you don't even have to examine the pixels to tell this is a fake. While the numbers on Daniels' ticket do match those that won half of the record $587.5 million jackpot, they're not in numerical order. A real ticket would be. From the official Powerball FAQ: 
 
 "The tickets print the white ball numbers (the first five numbers) in numerical order." 
 
 We've reached out to Daniels to see why he isn't volunteering for charity or learning a second language since he apparently has too much time on his hands. 
 
 Since the drawing, a couple in Missouri has been identified as the holders of one of two winning tickets. The other winner, who bought their ticket in Arizona, still hasn't come forward, but he was apparently captured on a gas station surveillance camera at the moment he found out he won. And he definitely doesn't look like Daniels. ||||| The second winner of the $588 million PowerBall lottery is not yet known publicly. But one man says he's the winner and will give someone who shares his Facebook photo $1 million. Is it a hoax? 
 
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 Karen Bach, director of budget, products and communications of the Arizona Lottery, announces during a news conference Thursday that one of the winning tickets in the $579.9 million Powerball jackpot was purchased in Fountain Hills, Ariz. 
 
 His name is Nolan Daniels, and he’s just about to give some random dude or dudette $1 million. Or so he claims. 
 
 Purporting to be the second Powerball winner in Wednesday’s $588 million payout, Mr. Daniels posted a Facebook photo late Thursday of himself holding a ticket showing the winning numbers. The photo is the only one visible on Daniels's account, which dates to 2008. 
 
 “Looks like I’m not going to work … EVER!!!” the smiling purported winner exclaimed. The numbers on his ticket – 5-23-16-22-29-Powerball 6 – correspond to the winning combination, but the ticket has not been publicly verified. 
 
 To make the Facebook announcement that much more bizarre, Daniels vowed to give $1 million of his winnings to a “random” person who “shares” his photo. 
 
 That set off a frenzy Friday as thousands of Facebook users got in on the action, with the photo being shared over 1,000 times a minute, with over 100,000 shares as of 3:30 p.m. 
 
 On his Facebook page, Daniels chastised skeptics and suggested, “Anyone who doubts the legitimacy of this photo will not be included in the 1 million dollar drawing.” 
 
 There were two winners in the drawing. The only winners confirmed so far are Cindy and Mark Hill of Dearborn, Mo., who decided to take a lump sum payment. Lottery authorities have not revealed the name of the other winner, who bought a ticket in Arizona. Earlier on Friday, some guessed that a video of a man celebrating in Maryland might show the winner. 
 
 The payout is the second largest in US history after three ticket buyers shared a $656 million jackpot in March. As the amount grew this week, tickets were selling at a rate of 130,000 a minute. ||||| Powerball fever reached new levels ahead of Wednesday night's drawing. The drawing produced this series of winning numbers: 05, 16, 22, 23, 29, and 6. 
 
 Arizona Lottery spokeswoman Karen Bach says a winner has not stepped forward to claim the Powerball prize during a press conference. (Photo: By Pat Shannahan, The Arizona Republic) Story Highlights Missouri officials to hold news conference Friday in Dearborn, Mo. 
 
 Winners will divide a record $587.5 million 
 
 Arizona officials say they are waiting on a winner to step forward 
 
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 Missouri Lottery officials said Thursday that they had confirmed a ticket that matched all six numbers drawn the night before, winning a share of the $587.5 million Powerball jackpot. 
 
 Lottery Chief Operations Officer Gary Gonder said he could not reveal details on the winning ticketholder but scheduled a news conference for 11 a.m. CST Friday at a high school near where the ticket was sold in tiny Dearborn, Mo. 
 
 Powerball administrators said another winning ticket was sold in Arizona, where officials were waiting for the winner to step forward. 
 
 Executives in both states sent out the same advice to whoever has one: Sign it, secure it, and consult legal and financial advisers before all the publicity fireworks begin. 
 
 Arizona set up special phone line for the person or group that bought a $10 Quick Pick ticket to call. 
 
 May Scheve Reardon, executive director of the Missouri Lottery, said Thursday, "We don't want them to feel rushed." 
 
 They have weeks to claim their half of the prize. It has a cash value of $384.7 million cash value. 
 
 Officials also announced the retail outlets where the winning tickets were sold. Whoever picked the right six numbers — 05, 16, 22, 23, 29, and a Powerball of 6 — shopped at a Trex Mart in Dearborn, Mo., midway between Kansas City and St. Joseph, or the 4 Sons Food Store in Fountain Hills, northeast of Phoenix. 
 
 The lucky retail outlets each won bonuses — $50,000 in Missouri and $25,000 in Arizona. 
 
 In Dearborn, population 500, the mood was giddy Thursday at the store where $27,000 worth of tickets were sold in the past few days. Cashier Kristi Williams said she hoped one of their many regulars was the winner. 
 
 "Even the truck drivers who come around, we see them every day, so they all feel like all locals to us," said Baron Hartell, son of the store's owner, Lowell Hartell. 
 
 Trex Mart General Manager Kenny Gilber, noting that a retailer who sells the winning ticket gets $50,000, said, "I guess we'll be able to give out Christmas bonuses. That's nice, especially at this time of year." 
 
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 The jackpot winner was not the only lucky player. Missouri has two winners of the $1 million prizes for matching all five white balls in the Powerball game. 
 
 South Carolina lottery officials said three tickets sold in that state matched five of of the six numbers. One winner was worth $1 million and two were worth $2 million. 
 
 Jerry Hucks, of Rock Hill, S.C., a truck builder for Daimler Trucks in Cleveland, N.C., said that on Thursday morning he looked at the ticket he had waited in line to buy a day earlier and realized he had five matches. It was good for $1 million. 
 
 "I didn't even have the truck door locked, and I had a $1 million ticket out there," he told lottery officials when he arrived Thursday to collect his winnings. "Then I can't believe I let three or four guys at work hold my ticket and Google the numbers screaming, 'It's a $1 million.' " 
 
 He said he told his colleagues, "I'm not quitting, but I'm not working anymore overtime." 
 
 The jackpot had climbed to $587.5 million after frenzied buying across the country before the Wednesday night drawing. 
 
 Chuck Strutt, the association's director, says skyrocketing sales pushed Wednesday's prize higher. There have been 16 consecutive drawings since Oct. 6 without a jackpot winner, which has fueled more than 500 million ticket purchases and exponential growth in the jackpot, second-biggest ever after March's $656 million Mega Millions award. 
 
 The winning tickets in Wednesday's record Powerball drawing were sold in Arizona and Missouri. 
 
 Strutt says hopefuls will have spent more than $1 billion wagering on the current jackpot. 
 
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 The Arizona and Missouri winners are lucky one more way: They're not in high tax states. 
 
 A winner will certainly be boosted into the top the federal tax bracket — 35%. But state and local taxes bites vary steeply. 
 
 The Wall Street Journal calculated that Powerball winnings could be worth as much as $30 million less in top-tax New York than in one of the seven states that don't tax Powerball winnings. Unfortunately, those states don't include Arizona and Missouri. 
 
 Neither do these two states allow the jackpot holders to remain anonymous. So after the tax bite, could come a parade of long-lost family and friends and promoters of charitable causes. 
 
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 According to lottery officials, the next Powerball drawing will be Saturday, Dec. 1, with an estimated grand prize of $40,000,000. 
 
 Contributing: Associated Press, Greenville (S.C.) News 
 
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– If you happened to stumble across a photo of someone named Nolan Daniels today, here's why: Last night, he posted a picture of himself on Facebook with what he claims is a winning Powerball ticket, explains the Christian Science Monitor. Then he asked people to share the photo, promising $1 million to a random person who did so. As of this afternoon, more than 200,000 hopeful souls had done so. Alas, Adrien Chen at Gawker points out that if it were a real Powerball ticket, the numbers would be in numerical order, unlike the one in the "poorly photoshopped" image. It just goes to show that "like-addled Facebook users will share anything no matter how obviously untrue it is," he writes. So far, then, we know only the identity of one of the two winners. (Click to read about the lucky Hill family of Missouri.) But many think this store video from Maryland shows the other. The unnamed man celebrating reportedly told people in the store that he bought it in Arizona.