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[jamajaaaaa]

Is this email address for paypal service? service.intl.paypal003.**com@**gmail**.com (please remove ** from this email because i can't pose an email on board) So, Situation : Today I have registered for paypal and verified my identity. I am collecting money from paypal but the customer told me that he cannot transfer money to me and I have received an email from paypal. I feel that this email is strange.

[kernowlass]

@jamajaaaaa 

If you have been told to open a paypal account to receive this payment then it looks very much like a scam.

Rather than just posting an email address its better to give us a gist of the email contents so we can confirm if its a scam or not. Make sure you don't post any personal or identifying content.

[jamajaaaaa]

the email title that i received : We encountered a little problem crediting your account. they said, You received a payment of $13.50 USD from (my customer name) but we have a problem crediting your account with that amount, because the status of your account which makes your account limit as this amount is above your limit. We won't be able to credit your account until your account limit has been expanded. Note: You have to take this urgent step to expand your limit. You're to contact the sender of your account (my customer name) to send additional payment of $200.00 USD to your account, to expand your account limit, as soon as this is done, the total sum of $213.50 USD will be credited to your account. An alert has been sent to (my customer name) also, in regards to the additional payment he/she has to send to your account.

[kernowlass]

@jamajaaaaa 

100% SCAM !!!

You never pay any upfront fee as a seller or to receive payments into a Paypal account.

Ignore scammers that send fake Paypal emails telling you that you need to pay an upfront fee to verify/upgrade to a business account/or any other reason to accept a payment.

In your case you will get an email stating your buyer has to send extra (they have sent nothing) which you then have to send back (pay) using another payment processor or a token etc).

 
You would certainly never have to send funds especially via another payment processor/bitcoins/ or tokens/vouchers of any sort.

Any fee is auto deducted by Paypal at the same instant the remainder of the payment is credited to your Paypal account balance.

No funds in your balance = you have not yet been paid, even pending/held payments will still show in your Paypal account activity.