very convincing "digital arrest" and other scams roil india

from nikkei

and here's a series of tweets that illustrates in video how this works:

https://x.com/vijaygajera/status/1849364596362285240

screenshot of first tweet:

why is India into crypto? strange.

is it just speculative interest from investors, or is the idea of ubiquitous digital currency already a given because of UPI?

this bit about Blockchain doesn't make sense, because I don't see that many Blockchain installations in India.