Fraud, Scam, Transaction, recurring payment

[Ayham07]

So I have received mail from: [removed], but I suspect this is fake. They sent me £500 for a mattress I sold and they say it's pending. Also they the the account is on limit and they have to pay me extra £50 I suspect they want the £50 back. Could anyone help me..

[kernowlass · Accepted solution]

@Ayham07 

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.

Also there is 0 paypal seller protection for items personally delivered or collected.