- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
Hello I received email from someone’s gmail which is from gmail anccount and I got this message. We encountered a little problem crediting your account. Why do we need this information? You received a payment of $400.00 USD from () but we have a problem crediting your account with that amount, because the status of your account is not a business user which makes your account limit as this amount is above your limit. We won’t be able to credit your account until your account limit has been expanded. Note: You have to take this urgent step to expand your limit. You’re to contact the sender of your account () to send additional payment of $100.00 USD to your account, to expand your account limit, as soon as this is done, the total sum of $500.00 USD will be credited to your account. You’re to refund the $100.00 USD back after he/she sent it to you. This message I got so please help to get out from this and what steps should I take please help. Thank you
Solved! Go to Solution.
- Labels:
-
Fraud & Phishing
Accepted Solutions
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
100% TOTAL 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. Or they send a fake email saying your buyer has paid the upfront extra fee but its on hold until you issue a refund. They would not have paid you anything, nothing would show in your paypal account and the 'refund' would be done via gift vouchers or similar totally 'off' and nothing to do with Paypals site.
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.
Advice is voluntary.
Kudos / Solution appreciated.
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
100% TOTAL 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. Or they send a fake email saying your buyer has paid the upfront extra fee but its on hold until you issue a refund. They would not have paid you anything, nothing would show in your paypal account and the 'refund' would be done via gift vouchers or similar totally 'off' and nothing to do with Paypals site.
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.
Advice is voluntary.
Kudos / Solution appreciated.

Haven't Found your Answer?
It happens. Hit the "Login to Ask the community" button to create a question for the PayPal community.
- Can a merchant charge my account with just an email from me agreeing to the charge? in Transactions
- phone call about a purchase that you did not make in Security and Fraud
- How can a one time payment turn into automatic payment by itself? in Security and Fraud
- No "Get My Money" Button or anywhere to add shipping information in Transactions
- Debit bonus doesnt detect amazon orders, CS gave me fake email in Wallet