Account expansion fraud

[Scavenger9]

I advertised an item and a buyer responded. I received an email from Paypal stating she sent the money but my account was on hold, and the transaction could not be reversed or canceled until I expanded my account, she volunteered to send the additional money for a stranger she doesn’t even know And the date on the email was tomorrow! Is this fraud? Do they ask you to expand your account? With the buyer paying for it? It asked for $400 expand my account. I told her I don’t have the $400 to refund her she said how much do you have? I said 200 until Friday and she said well send it then I got an alert from email saying buyer said you only had $200, send that then will credit your account and you can send her the remainder after that, she keeps bugging me to do this, but I don’t feel like this is legitimate even in the emails look like legitimate PayPal emails, except for the date ?

[kernowlass]

@Scavenger9 

SCAM.
You never pay any upfront fee as a seller or to receive funds.

Ignore scammers that send fake Paypal emails telling you that you need to pay an upfront fee to verify/upgrade to a business account/or any other reason to accept a payment.

You would certainly never have to send funds especially via another payment processor/bitcoins/ or tokens/vouchers of any sort.

Any fee is auto deducted by Paypal at the same instant the remainder of the payment is credited to your Paypal account balance.

No funds in your balance = you have not yet been paid, even pending/held payments will still show in your Paypal account activity.