Been asked to receive and refund an extra £400 to set up my account - is this a scam?

[JCH1970]

Is it normal when receiving money to be asked to accept another transaction for £400? I'm trying to sell something but I can't receive the payment until there's a £400 transaction made?

[kernowlass]

@JCH1970 

100% SCAM.

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

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 or accept a payment and then refund it (usually they say by another un-safe payment option).

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.