A senior citizen who lived with her son received a call from someone allegedly calling on behalf of Maharashtra Natural Gas Limited, a gas provider supplying piped gas to homes in Maharashtra. The caller showed urgency and urged the lady to pay the pending gas bill immediately, failing that the connection would be gone. Anxious and perturbed by this information, the lady rushed and gave the phone to her son to sort out this issue. The caller again insisted on the immediate need to clear the pending gas bill and asked the son to pay through a specific link, that he would share. The son agreed to pay Rs 100 as a test payment to which the caller agreed. The link, once opened, displayed the details of the gas connection, such as the account ID, the person in whose name it was registered, etc. Believing the link to be genuine, the son entered his card details to make the test payment of Rs 100 but ended up losing Rs 60,000.