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Hello everybody!
I want to sell something and I got a message from an email which contains PayPal in the name saying that I have received a payment for shipping fees and the amount will be credited to my paypal account only after paying the X amount to a bitcoin machine. A strange thing is that I did not receive any notification in the PayPal application. Has anyone else encountered such a situation and how can I report this situation? Thank you in advance!
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That's a scam. You have not been paid if you do not see payment in your PayPal account.
"received a payment for shipping fees and the amount will be credited to my paypal account only after paying the X amount to a bitcoin machine"
PayPal will never send an email like this with instructions such as using a third party payment processor to make a payment before receiving money.
https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/avoid-fraud?
https://www.paypal.com/ro/smarthelp/article/how-do-i-report-a-fake-paypal-email-or-website-faq438
Kudos & Solved are greatly appreciated. 🙂
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That's a scam. You have not been paid if you do not see payment in your PayPal account.
"received a payment for shipping fees and the amount will be credited to my paypal account only after paying the X amount to a bitcoin machine"
PayPal will never send an email like this with instructions such as using a third party payment processor to make a payment before receiving money.
https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/avoid-fraud?
https://www.paypal.com/ro/smarthelp/article/how-do-i-report-a-fake-paypal-email-or-website-faq438
Kudos & Solved are greatly appreciated. 🙂
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