Sunday February 19, 2023 | 5:00 a.m.
As this medium has been reporting, a 29-year-old woman identified as Jarmit Edit Jara, who is perceived as the coordinator of a fictitious travel company, committed fraud by granting tickets to Camboriú and Rio de Janeiro to 44 people to leave from Posadas on Tuesday.
Due to the fact, one of the victims of this fraud told in detail how he lived that episode when he had to travel with the accused woman and stated that he hopes that he can recover at least part of the money delivered.
“We had a friendly relationship, because he always wrote to me. Such was the confidence that when she had the problem in Brazil, I sent her the links to what was on the news and she told me that it was a misunderstanding, that the passengers had robbed the hotel,” said Susana Gamarra, a of the victims of the scam.
Likewise, Susana mentioned to this morning paper that the trust with the woman who finally cheated on her began last year, when she traveled with a colleague to Salta-Jujuy and later to Mendoza without problems.
“We went on the trip with my co-workers and we always paid them through Mercado Pago,” said the 61-year-old nurse.
“In July or August of last year she had problems with some passengers. That’s why she writes to me and asks if I can lend her 15,000 pesos because she had to pay for one more day in the hotel. So I tell her that she charges me as part of the payment to travel to Brazil, since we had talked about this trip, ”she recalled.
In addition, Susana said that later, already decided that she was going to travel to Brazil with Jara, she gave him 35,000 pesos to remain as payment for the trip to Rio de Janeiro. In that possibility, the scammer offered her the opportunity to pay in installments with a credit card and the victim agreed.
“When he approaches me to pay him, he charges me a part and he does the rest in 6 installments, to pay for the total trip that was worth 170 thousand pesos, which I finished paying on January 1,” he said.
Chronicle of fraud
On the other hand, Gamarra narrated in detail how the events were on February 14, when it was described that they had been deceived. He mentioned that the 29-year-old woman was in the terminal and “made her talk on the phone.” Along these lines, the woman mentioned that the defendant “came up to talk to me for a while and put me as a reference for me to tell people that I was there, that I had already traveled with her and it was safe.”
However, when the tourists had not yet left for their vacation destination, the 61-year-old woman said that they asked her what was happening, to which she only replied that something surely happened with the bus but that it was going to be solved. , “because we all thought the trip was going to come out”.
In this context, when it was approximately 3:30 p.m., the woman who had organized the supposed trip “approached to tell me that she was going to go to the corner of the terminal because the bus was there and that I gather all the people to go up” , he claimed.
But before this notice, some of the passengers who were also waiting to travel approached and said they saw how the woman left in a hurry, almost running and that there was no bus on the corner. After that moment they did not see her anywhere again.
For this reason, in the face of the intrigue of what had happened and not being able to communicate with the scammer, since she would have turned off her cell phone, the tourists waited in the place without understanding what was happening.
Then, when it was approximately 6:00 p.m., “she sends a message to the travel group apologizing, saying that the trip was canceled because the bus with which they were going to travel broke down and that she was going to try to return the money,” Susana added. . That has not happened so far.
On the other hand, the woman, who works in the health area, mentioned that when people realized that they were victims of a scam, she did not file the complaint immediately, because she could not believe that the woman to whom he was confident he took more than 200,000 pesos between travel payment and alleged real purchases.
“I don’t know if it was the emotion of traveling or the impact of having been scammed, but I didn’t want to file a complaint until the other day when my children told me that they were already filing a complaint.”
from other provinces
According to the data that El Territorio was able to obtain, there were people waiting to vacation on the Brazilian beaches from Chaco and Formosa who were summoned by the 29-year-old woman to go to the Posadas terminal at midnight. Meanwhile, the people from Posadas were summoned for noon. In addition, there were people from the interior of Misiones who were waiting for the road trip.
Likewise, Susana expressed: “They told us that in total it reached 8 million pesos with the scam on the 44 passengers. They also told us that she is detained.”
Finally, the 61-year-old woman stated: “I am waking up from a nightmare, because I worked extra shifts to be able to bring a little more money and get a gift for my family. But all the sacrifice, which is more exhausting because of my age, was in vain ”she closed.
On the other hand, official sources reported that the defendant, identified as 29-year-old Jarmit Edit Jara, refrained from testifying on Friday before the Investigative Judge Seis de Posadas, Ricardo Balor. In addition, the accused of fraud continues to be detained at the Fourteenth Police Station.
