Sharafudeen, who returned from Riyadh in 2013 after slogging there for nine years doing odd jobs, had been selling lottery tickets in and around Aryankavu.
If the ticket goes unclaimed, the USD 1.5 billion prize will be redistributed to the 44 states along with the U.S. Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia.
In January, another Indian, Sarath Purushothaman, who is based in Dubai, was awarded with a whopping Dirhams 15 million, the highest prize ever being given away by Big Ticket.
While Vanessa Ward was at a grocery store, she decided to try her luck and without expecting much, purchased a 'Win a Spin' scratch-off ticket at the store. Everything changed thereafter.
Earlier this month, a 30-year-old Indian had won a USD 1.9 million in a monthly raffle in the UAE, hours before he was set to leave the country for good.