11 People Who Became Millionaires Overnight

An artisanal miner in Tanzania who became an overnight millionaire last month after finding two of the largest rough tanzanite gems ever found, was lucky again - he unearthed a 6 kg (13 pound) gem worth estimated at about $ 2 million. Tanzanite, which has a deep blue-violet color, is only found in that East African country and is considered one of the rarest gems on the planet. The two dark violet-blue gemstones, each about 30 cm long and 10 cm thick, were discovered by miners employed by Saniniu Laizer, in a mine north of the country.??

A massive 10.69 carat diamond, with an estimated value of Rs 50 lakh, was found by Anandilal Kushwaha who has a lease of a mine in Ranipur area. He has deposited a 10.69 carat diamond with the local diamond office (Hira Karyalaya), Panna's diamond officer R K Pandey was quoted as saying by news agency ANI. Panna district in the state's Bundelkhand region is famous for its diamond reserves.

A daily wager, Motilal Prajapati, in Madhya Pradesh¡¯s Panna district found a 42.59-carat diamond in October and sold it for Rs 2.55 crore at an auction on December 29 last year, a senior official said. The diamond mined is the second heaviest diamond in the history of Panna. Motilal with four others had taken mine on lease, excavated the site and found the diamond.

A business development manager who worked in a firm in Dubai won a lottery worth $3.2 million (Rs 20.8 crores) in January 2018, which was also the biggest-ever raffle prize money. He participated in the Big Ticket Lottery at Abu Dhabi International Airport

After 30 years of running the same number in the Colorado Lottery, Joe B finally received the sweet taste of a win. Double that taste because he not just won once, but twice. According to a 9 News report, Joe B won two Powerball jackpots which were worth $1 million each. He had bought the winning tickets from different places, one from a 7-Eleven at Lake Avenue and another at a Loaf and Jug. According to Colorado's Lottery's Communications Director, Meghan Dougherty, Joe B bought one ticket in the morning and the other one in the evening.

According to reports, Shibu Paul and Linnet Joseph, a Malayali couple based in Nottingham in the United Kingdom woke up to a?brand new luxury car worth Rs 1.84 crore (?195,000). It happened after Shibu randomly filled a lottery contest called ¡®Best of the Best¡¯ (BOTB) for a dream car. He had already filled three of them and did the last one randomly at an airport. The best part is that he completely forgot about it.?¡°I had participated three times and I didn¡¯t want to become an addict. Last time, I filled the form and forgot about it completely. My wife was taking a nap after her night shift, and when the doorbell rang, we were greeted with a brand new Lamborghini worth ?195,000 and a prize money of ?20,000. We are so grateful to god, as we were worried about my job prospects,¡± Shibu told?The New Indian Express.

Sam Lawton from the US, bagged a whopping ?1,20,000 (Rs 1.04 crore) with his first-ever lottery ticket. The 19-year-old said that he didn¡¯t have any plans to buy a lottery ticket, but decided to buy it after seeing a fellow winner, Dean Weymes, on television last month.?

In an unfortunate event, a woman named LeAndra Clay - a resident of Helena-West Helena in Arkansas - lost her house in a fire in February 2018. It was a devastating loss and we can only imagine how hard it must have been on her. However, fate had something else in store for her. Clay purchased a lottery ticket at the Helena Crossing Conoco in West Helena, and ended up winning Rs 1.03 crore?in a powerball drawing in March 2018.

Indian-origin Krishna Barri, who lives in Florida, U.S., is not the kind of person who buys lottery tickets. But the one time he decided to, he hit the jackpot - $14.5 million to be precise. He bought ten tickets on December 1, 2018, at the Zephyrhills Publix Liquor Store in Tampa, Florida.

Vanessa Ward, an American woman who was merely out to buy groceries, ended up winning the Rs 1.5 crore lottery in December 2018. Vanessa Ward told Virginia Lottery that her father asked her to pick up a head of cabbage, so she stopped by the Giant Food Store in Groveton. While at the store, she decided to buy a Win a Spin scratch-off ticket. When she got home and scratched the ticket, she discovered that she had won the game's top prize: a live spin on the Big Wheel and the chance to win anywhere between $100,000 and $500,000.