The frame job is not a stretch. I’ve seen spear phishing campaigns that spanned weeks to convince someone that’s request to transfer money, at the very end, was legit. Some of the intermediate emails were pretty innocuous.
That’s just impersonation, framing is when it’s about how you make the real party look, not yourself. Which would be weird, not implausible, but you get to implausible when you assert not just that somebody framed you, but that you were framed by some specific trusted party like the police or Google, and also you have zero evidence.
