Money pending, suspicious emails, etc.

[Temp20220322bh]

Hello,

I need your help. Tried to sell the bicycle from Estonia to the person in Czech Republic. He has sent me 370 EUR via PayPal using my link. Money is pending, I had to pay 300 EUR shipping fee to the shipping company, my buyer sent the money because he was ready to pay it for me, money was also pending. I've sent the payment of the 300 EUR via bitcoin to the address "<removed>". They also asked for the insurance fee, it was 590 EUR, payment is sent, now I've got the email saying I won the extra money (5000 EUR or something) and I have to send them 1290EUR to get it. What is going on? Is this a scam? Does anyone has been dealing with this bitcoin wallet address already?

[kernowlass]

@Temp20220322bh 

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.

They don't quibble on cost and may also say they can't view the item as they are disabled or working abroad or sending as a gift to a family member but they will arrange a shipping agent or courier to collect it.

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.

The fake paypal email will tell you that the buyer has paid for the item + shipping costs but you must send those shipping costs to the courier/ shipping agent via another payment processor than Paypal or by providing some vouchers or tokens before the funds are released to you.
They are not interested in the item, they just want that couriers/shipping funds and you will never see money in your paypal balance.

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 insurance /  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.
Paypal NEVER expect you as a seller to send anything to receive funds especially not via another payment processor ie bitcoin. 

Any fees are auto deducted the same time as your funds are deposited into your paypal balance.
There is no seller protection on paypal for any type of item that is collected by the buyer.

Delete any emails and ignore the scammers.