BATON ROUGE - The official Twitter account of Louisiana State University had to step in after a fabricated image got thousands of shares on social media.

The now-viral tweet was posted Tuesday and featured an apparent screenshot of a private message between the user and LSU's official account. The teen appears to ask the school's Twitter account how many retweets it would take for him to be awarded a full scholarship. The image appears to show LSU responding with "500k", suggesting that 500,000 retweets would earn him a full ride to the university.

By Wednesday, thousands of people had retweeted the image, prompting LSU to butt in.

Nice try on this fake image…

Here is how we actually award scholarships: https://t.co/JfyGMLbdwO pic.twitter.com/34oLpWqJ8B

— LSU (@LSU) August 15, 2018

A university spokesperson also confirmed the user had photoshopped the image.

As of Friday afternoon, the post had more than 100,000 retweets.