Dubai: One 74 old omani man got a raffle ticket which written down ‘Winner takes all — 500,000 dirhams,” Mohammad Al Noman, 74, said his birthday present as carol came early this year. The first winner of the DSF raffle draw was left speechless when he received a call telling him he is the winner of two Infiniti top models, QX60 and G25, and a cash prize of Dh100,000. The Omani grandfather of 11 consider the day was having a bad when he lost his ATM card while withdrawing cash at a gas station, until his luck turned aroundfrom DSF. Returning to the station to collect his missing card, which was found by dubai police , Al Noman was persuaded to buy a Dh200 raffle ticket for the DSF draw from there . “He toldto attendant in filling station that he never won in a raffle before never, but she insisted and told to me I would be lucky this time,” Al Noman told . Trying his luck in a raffle for the first time in years, Al Noman said he bought a ticket which he later tossed into a drawer upon reaching home. “When I got the call telling to me that Noman the winner… at first I thought it should be a scam, but after I examined my ticket and confirmed it, but I felt an element of disbelief,” he told. After receiving the call from Dubai Festivals authority and Retail Establishment, an agency of the Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing, and the organizers of DSF, congratulating him on his grand win at the Infinity Mega Raffle, Al Noman collected his prize at the Global Village raffle prize announcement. Eight years long dubai resident , Al Noman said he will sell the two Infiniti models and add the money to the Dh100,000 cash prize to buy the house that he currently lives in. Al Noman, a hotel manager, and father of four. “It’s a beautiful occasion as the news of me winning the raffle has come a few days before my birthday on January 17,” so he is happy.
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