On July 25, you might have come across a now deleted thread on the Twitter handle @EmpoweringGoa, about a young woman who described a heart-warming experience she had in a Churchgate-bound local train with a senior citizen, who wasn't being given a place to sit by fellow passengers because of how she looked.

The woman said how she made space for the senior and later found out that she'd been a hockey player, a model and an employee at the French embassy. Turns out, almost all of those claims are untrue. mid-day learnt this after speaking to Virar resident Ivy Pinto, the septuagenarian whose story went viral through the tweets.