I believe one of the reasons why the campaign manager and the project team paid upfront for the review was because the review itself will require participants to spend a few dollars in order to successfully try out all the features of the project.
The project had good intentions so that participants wouldn't complain about not having funds to pay for the review service. It's just so sad that someone out there decided to use that to their own advantage by scamming the $90.
Actually my first time seeing a company (project in this case) paying participants before the service. I applaud Royse777 for having the courage to undertake this innovation despite knowing that things like this are bound to happen. I presumed it immediately I saw the thread but I wasn't expecting participants to abscond with the payment but was expecting shitty review that will not get approval. It's greediness that made some of them to apply even knowing that they can not perform the tax efficiently. There was a report of copy and paraphrasing in that same review thread too.
The project want to make impression in the forum in my opinion. If it's the complaint of not having fund to carry out the review, I think a part payment would have been better and besides they are people who are ready to use their funds for the review pending payment and those who don't have fund should stay off. It's unfortunate losing senior member because of $90.