Confirmation fee

[SH1973]

A seller is sending me money, from the US to New Zealand and tell me there is a 'confirmation fee' of $200. Who else has experienced this?

[kernowlass]

@SH1973 

SCAM.

You never pay any upfront fee as a seller.

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.

[SH1973]

Yes I was suspicious when the last statement read "$10,000.00 is deposited to your PayPal account to clarify all your fees just make the last payment of $200,00 because this transaction is take over a week on pending thanks for choosing PayPal."