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UAE Raffle Draw

Indians emerged as the biggest beneficiaries of the UAE's leading weekly raffle draw Mahzooz, which has created 31 multi-millionaires in the last two years, giving away over 350,000,000 dirham in prize money to its winning participants. Among the total 217,000 winners, Indians come first, thanks to the large and repeat participation numbers from within the United Arab Emirates, India and other Gulf Cooperation Council countries. In 2022, Indians participating from several countries, had a sizable share of the win, with a total prize money of 85,000,000 dirham (1.9 billion Indian Rupees). Four of those winners were the lucky receivers of the Mahzooz top prize and became multi-millionaires overnight in 2022. Incidentally, the first and last millionaires of 2022 were also from India. While Rama walked away with the weekly 10-million dirham prize fund, Dalip turned out to be the lucky solo winner of a promotional pot of 20 million dirham. (The Indian rupee ranged from an average of Rs .

Updated On: 01 Jan 2023 | 11:52 PM IST

The storekeeper claimed an Infiniti QX50 car as well as 200,000 dirhams (USD 54,448) cash prize in the Infiniti Mega Raffle

Updated On: 21 Jan 2020 | 2:28 PM IST

Four more winners were announced in the Dubai Duty Free Finest Surprise Promotion

Updated On: 20 Aug 2019 | 8:11 PM IST

Big Ticket Abu Dhabi is a long-running and extremely popular prize draw hosted at Abu Dhabi International Airport

Updated On: 03 Jun 2018 | 3:00 PM IST

The winner was already struggling to pay back his loans and was facing financial hardships

Updated On: 06 Aug 2017 | 9:23 PM IST