ASHA from Jabalpur Madhya Pradesh fell prey on a complicated lottery fraud, which left it not only financially destroyed, but also psychologically scarred. Pushpalata Jharia, 36 years, from the Bargi Police Station, was lured by the promise of diamonds, gold AA £10 Lakh Cash Prize – a lie that has been spiraling in months of emotional manipulation, financial ruins and superior kidnapping.
Pushpalata, who equals his role as a medical worker with the education of two children and the support of a husband who performs a special work, only believed that the rewards came from hard work. The only phone call in March, however, changed the course of her life.
The fraud begins
The call came from a foreign number via the VPN line. The caller claimed that Pushpalata won the mega lottery, but needed to pay a small processing fee to claim it. What started as a smaller payment was soon escalated to a number of gears. The cheaters held her on a hook with repeated calls, threats and false reasons.
At one point, she was told that her card was discovered with a courier who carried his “lottery price” that was arrested. If she did not pay more, they warned, she could also have trouble.
Pushpalata spededses between fear and despair £4 Lakh for one and a half months. The money was obtained through loans from relatives and desperate requests for help. “She still asked villagers and relatives about money. When we asked why, she said she was helping a relative,” said her sister -in -law Asha Jharia NDTV. “Once she sent money using my daughter’s phone. We begged her to stop – we barely had enough of each other.”
Disappearance
23rd April Pushpalata visited her mother home. Three days later she disappeared and told her family that she was heading to Barg, but never returned. The report on the missing person was submitted 4 May.
In fact, she started a lonely journey around several cities – Jabalpur, Mumbai, Surrat and Delhi – survived on free meals, slept on stations and occupied special work. She used borrowed phones to occasionally contact her family, all while continuing to send money her invisible manipulation.
Cold turn: False kidnapping
The scammers later forced her to record a desperate video. In it, Pushpalata can be seen and begs for help. The video was sent to her husband along with a request £2 lakh. The threats were serious: if the money was not paid, her body would be “chopped into pieces and thrown into the forest”.
“She called a prize in March. She slowly started sending money. One day we got a video where she cried, and she said she was kidnapped. We were scared,” her daughter Poonam said.
The incident left the family shaken. Mother Pushpalata approached the High Court in Madhya Pradesh and filed a lawsuit against Habeas Corpus. Four police teams were assigned to the court orders to follow it.
Watched in a larger Noida
The breakthrough came when Pushpalata called from the stolen phone in Velký Noida. The authorities followed this number and found it on a quiet Monday afternoon.
“She was physically weak and mentally disoriented,” NDTV CSP quoted Anjul Misra of Bargi. “It is still under the illusion that it was part of a larger plan and will eventually be rewarded.”
Even after her rescue, Pushpalata believes that fraudsters are “good people” and that its price is still real. Police officials began to advise her to help break psychological possession of fraud.
International Cyber Fraud Trail
Investigators are now working on tracking a digital trace of fraud that seems to come from foreign servers. “We got more sound news with terrible abuse,” Misra said. “The video kidnapping came from a foreign source. A country that hosts IP does not cooperate, making it difficult to trace fraudsters.”
The authorities continue their efforts to build the perpetrators and help Pushpalat regain their position after a tormenting suffering that cost almost everything.
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