A man who claims he is one of the big winners of Wednesday night's Powerball jackpot is tweeting that he will be sharing his newfound wealth.
A Twitter account popped up with the handle @ThePowerballGuy shortly after the drawing. A man claiming to be Erik Bragg has since been tweeting that he is the winner from Chino Hills, California, and that he plans to give away some of his money.
The real Bragg is a pro skateboarder and film director, according to Refinery 29.
#Powerball I won pic.twitter.com/A3o8NfIjH2
— Erik bragg (@ThepowerballGuy) January 14, 2016
He initially tweeted that he would give $10,000 to everyone who retweeted him before 12:00.
I'm giving away $10,000 to everyone who retweets and follows me! Hurry only giving away until 12:00 #Powerball pic.twitter.com/xXkzwvLSXc
— Erik bragg (@ThepowerballGuy) January 14, 2016
Then he said he would give away $1,000 to everyone that retweeted and followed him.
So thankful I won but I wanna share the wealth! I'll give $1,000 to everyone that retweets and follows! #Powerball
— Erik bragg (@ThepowerballGuy) January 14, 2016
Next, he claimed he would give $20K to the first 100K people who followed him.
Rt & follow, Giving away 20k to first 100k followers, want to help others #PowerballJackpot #Powerball bless others
— Erik bragg (@ThepowerballGuy) January 14, 2016
And then it jumped to $1 million for everyone.
Everyone who retweets and follows will get $1,000,000 from me! Hurry going I sleep soon #Powerball pic.twitter.com/R5zUZFEKKv
— Erik bragg (@ThepowerballGuy) January 14, 2016
Shortly after, it was back down to just $1,000.
No one man needs all this money, so I'm giving away $1,000 to everyone who RTs and follows! #Powerball
— Erik bragg (@ThepowerballGuy) January 14, 2016
And then it was back up to $1M for one lucky person.
I'm so Blessed to hit the Jackpot I'm giving away $1M to one lucky person who follows and shares this! #Powerball pic.twitter.com/YdoGi3OhRA
— Erik bragg (@ThepowerballGuy) January 14, 2016
The self-proclaimed winner was also encouraging people to follow his Instagram account for a chance to win and to download a mixtape for a chance at $30,000.
He apparently went to sleep for a few hours after his big win, but was right back at it early Thursday morning.
Lets get my Instagram too 23k followers I'll give away 300k$ https://t.co/fdLV57z6yq
— Erik bragg (@ThepowerballGuy) January 14, 2016
His quest for followers and retweets seems to be working. As of 7:30 a.m. PT Thursday morning, the Twitter account was being followed by a little over 17,000 people.
A winning ticket was indeedsold in Chino Hills. Two other winning tickets were sold in Florida and Tennessee. At this time, none of the winners have been officially identified.
Although nothing bad will probably happen if you believe the man who is claiming to be a big winner, we suggest you take his claims with a grain of salt. Of course, if we are wrong, we'll be kicking ourselves for not retweeting. Maybe we will just in case.
