You did not win the $ 640 Mega Millions kitty this past Friday . But neither did all of the idiots out there who tried to wangle it — some of them pretty darn convincingly . Dr. Neal Krawetzover at the Hacker Factor blogwent out and squashed one of the especially convincing fakes . Here ’s how .
The fake wasoriginally posted on Redditbefore a lot of details had come out about the winners , so some obvious things like it being from a state that did n’t have a winner were n’t pronto patent . But even beyond the obvious , there were a few technical method that Krawetz used to debunk the skulduggery . All of it is document in detail and with screenshots for the less Adobe - wizard among us . [ Hacker FactorviaHacker News ]
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