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Has anyone seen a letter like this or did I just get scamed
Dear [removed] Mark
IMPORTANT NOTICE: READ CAREFULLY THE BELOW MESSAGES AND FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN SO WE CAN FINALLY PROCESS YOUR PAYMENT WITHOUT ANY FURTHER DELAY.
We are really sorry for the late response, We encountered a little problem while crediting your PayPal account, you have a pending payment of $390.00 USD but we have a problem crediting your PayPal account with that amount because your account is not a premium business account and cannot receive above.
Your PayPal account has a small limit of an amount that can be deposited so therefore you are to quickly expand the limits of your PayPal account to enable your account to have a fund maximum limits.
You can take this few steps to expand your limit:
Contact the last payer of your account Kathleen [removed] to send in an additional payment of $180.00 USD so that your account limit can be expanded, as soon as this is done, we will credit the total amount $570.00 USD into your account immediately without. any further delay.
Note: that an alert has also been sent to Kathleen [removed] in regard to the $180.00 USD additional payment he has to send to you, we will secure this transaction with high priority that neither the payer nor the payee will lose funds in this transaction
We await your swift response.
Thank you for using PayPal
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Hello @MarkR60,
Welcome to the PayPal Community! I'm glad you reached out about this issue. What you've detailed in your post does not sound like a legitimate situation. You should never have to send money to someone to receive payment from them.
If you've already sent them a payment, and it was as Goods and Services, I'd recommend seeing if the option to Open a dispute is available. If it was not sent as Goods and Services, but it was funded by a debit / credit card or bank, I'd recommend reaching out to your funding source to see what options you may have.
Here are a few resources you may find useful for the future:
How do I spot a fake, fraudulent, or phishing PayPal email or website?
How do I receive money through PayPal?
I hope that helps!
- Jon K
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