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Model the like-and-review task scam: seed payouts, escalating deposits, and the app balance that never withdraws.
Task-based work-from-home scams pay you first. A few trivial tasks — liking videos, rating hotels — earn a small commission that really does withdraw, and then the tasks become 'prepaid': you deposit your own money to unlock a higher commission, and each round is a multiple of the one before. This explainer models that ladder as the geometric series it is, showing the balance the app displays against the cash that actually left your bank, and scores the offer against the red flags that define it, including the account-lending request that turns a victim into a money mule.
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Deposits are summed as a geometric progression, so a Rs 1,000 opening round shows its real five-round total.
The displayed wallet and the true cash position diverge on screen, which is the whole illusion in one table.
Flags the receive-and-forward request separately, because that consequence outlives the money.
Because they are the cost of the con. Paying a few hundred rupees in genuine, withdrawable commission is what makes the first deposit feel safe, and it is trivially cheap against a deposit ladder that runs into tens of thousands.
No. A genuine employer pays you and never requires you to fund tasks, buy a starter kit, pay a registration or security fee, or top up a wallet to unlock earnings. Any request for money flowing from you to the employer ends the conversation.
That balance is a number in the operator's own database, not money held for you anywhere. Each new obstacle — wrong task order, incomplete combination, tax, VIP upgrade — appears only after a deposit, and no further payment releases anything.
Receiving money for someone else and passing it on can make you the traceable link in their fraud: the account may be frozen and you can be questioned as a participant regardless of what you were told. Report it yourself at cybercrime.gov.in or on 1930 rather than waiting, and take legal advice — this is informational, not legal advice.