Do people receive a large amount of money in 25 minutes after reposting an image of a cut-out U.S. quarter coin, and conversely, do those who fail to repost the image lose "something worth keeping"? No, that's not true: This is a hoax traced back to at least 2014 intended to generate a large amount of reposts. There is no correlation between sharing this post and instant financial reward or loss.
This is an example of the image in a post (archived here) published on February 19, 2015, and it is still being shared more than four years later. The message on the photo of a 1981 U.S. 25-cent coin with George Washington's profile cut out reads:
If your reading this post, repost and receive a large amount of money in 25 minutes! If you fail to repost youll lose something worth keeping.
Lead Stories tested this offer of "a large amount of money in 25 minutes" by posting it on our editor-in-chief's personal Facebook page. He has yet to receive the reward. Also, we asked one of our writers to read the post and not share. That writer has not yet experienced any loss of "something worth keeping."
While we have not identified anything negative resulting from a repost of the image, it may have the result of lowering your friends opinion of your ability to detect real from fake. This is fake.
