A person messaged me after seeing an item on Facebook marketplace. He wanted to pay via a PayPal business account and told me he had paid the amount owed for the item. Then he proceeded to inform me he had received an email from PayPal claiming that before they could credit me the funds he paid for the item, he was to pay an extra amount much more than the cost of my item. Then once the funds for the item have been credited to me, I was to refund him the extra money Paypal had asked for. He sent me a screenshot of what looked like the activity page with transactions on it. It did show the two transactions, the first being payment for the item & second one supposedly the funds he claims he was requested by Paypal to send.
I am scared to pay the funds to my Paypal account and then to him in case he shoots through with my money having never paid for the item in the first place. Therefore leaving me robbed. Is this a scam?
