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Yes, its a scam. PayPal does not ask you to buy and submit gift card info in order to release payment to you. The buyer made up a spoof email pretending to be from PayPal. If someone really paid, you will see record of payment in your PayPal account fairly instantly, even if PayPal puts a hold on the funds.
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Yes, its a scam. PayPal does not ask you to buy and submit gift card info in order to release payment to you. The buyer made up a spoof email pretending to be from PayPal. If someone really paid, you will see record of payment in your PayPal account fairly instantly, even if PayPal puts a hold on the funds.
Kudos & Solved are greatly appreciated. 🙂
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Hi, so it turns out that my dumb self fell so this type of scam, and the scammer is now threatening to have me arrested, that is all fake right?
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