Your review job now wants an advance payment

How the “like and review” job is advertised

The ad appears on social media as a normal part time listing: like videos, follow pages, or leave short product reviews for a small fee per task. It often includes screenshots of other people’s earnings.

You message the number or account listed, get added to a group chat, and complete your first handful of tasks without paying anything.

The public setting, a page or group rather than a private message, is part of what makes it feel credible.

Why the small payouts feel like proof

You get paid quickly for the first tasks, often the same day, straight into your bank account or e-wallet. This is real money, and that is exactly the point.

A genuine small payout does not prove the whole operation is legitimate. It proves only that the operator is willing to pay a little now to be trusted with more later.

Trust built this way is what makes the next request easier to accept.

What a “combo task” or “group order” actually is

Once you are engaged, you are offered “combo” or “group order” tasks: a batch of products to review or purchase together, which pays a larger commission. To take part, you are told to advance the order value first.

The group setting adds pressure, since other members in the chat appear to be completing the same tasks and getting paid, though you cannot verify who they really are.

After you advance the funds, the order either fails, needs a top-up to release, or the group admin stops responding.

Before you advance any more money

A part time task job that needs you to fund its own orders is not paying you for work, it is collecting deposits. This matches the pattern described on the job task scam page, regardless of how it is branded.

If you have already advanced money, note whether it went by bank transfer, DuitNow, or an in-app wallet, since this affects what can be done next. A transfer traceable to a bank account gives you more to work with than a balance inside someone else’s app.

If you have not paid the advance yet, this is the point to stop and verify before you do. The wider range of scam types covered here shows how many jobs use this same funding request in different forms.

What to do next

Leave the group chat only after saving the conversation, the task instructions, and every payment you made. Deleting it removes evidence along with the group.

Report through the first response steps after a scam, and call the National Scam Response Centre on 997 if a transfer happened recently. If a bank transfer was involved, ask about a recall as soon as you can.

A short conversation can help you see whether the amount involved is worth pursuing, including whether legal action makes sense for what you lost.