Clearance fees south africa

[Bevon1]

Hi there. I received a clearance fee payment request of 120 USD from another South African individual, and the apparent payment does not show on my PayPal account. I honestly do not know why this person could not just have sent me the payment via south african banking services. Now he has received his parcel, and I am sitting without the payment. I refuse to pay the clearance fees. That was not the whole idea using PayPal as proffered method for payment.

[kernowlass · Accepted solution]

@Bevon1 

Sure its not this scam?

SCAM.

They encourage you to accept a direct Paypal payment and may ask you to send the item internationally.
No funds or activity of the transaction shows in your Paypal account and any emails may go into your junk/spam folders.

You will get/got a "fake" email that looks as though it is from paypal.....it isn't because they don't have a Paypal account and have no intention of paying you.
It will say the buyer has paid ...you won't have been paid.
They will tell you that the payment is released when you provide paypal with a tracking/shipping number......this won't happen.

Once you have become a victim they may try again with more fake Paypal emails with other reasons that you must send them a payment for custom fees / to verify, expand or upgrade an account.

Paypal NEVER tell you to send an item before the payment is showing in your paypal account.
Paypal do not tell you to send trackable, they advise it for selling protection but it is not compulsory.
Delete any emails and ignore the scammers.

[Sipheleleibunjw]

Same problem. Did you get your payment

[kernowlass]

@Sipheleleibunjw 

Why would they get paid if its a SCAM?