The moment of having thoughts of the token of being scam, you should already stop communicating on the team behind that project and share awareness instead.
Because no one will refund you from that "scammed" project if their main purpose is to scam.

The time you were asked as for payment for refund is already suspicious. You should stop communicating via telegram if you don't know that the person you are talking with if the account is an official representative of the project because there are many impersonators in telegram crypto/project groups.