Fraud

[Plkwa17]

Dear Customer,   IMPORTANT NOTICE: READ CAREFULLY THE BELOW MESSAGES AND FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN SO WE CAN FINALLY PROCESS YOUR PAYMENT WITHOUT ANY FURTHER DELAY. We are really sorry for the late response. We encountered a little problem while crediting your PayPal account, you have a pending payment of $40.00 AUD but  we have a problem crediting your PayPal account with that amount because your account is not a premium business account, your PayPal account has a small limit of an amount that can be deposited into it therefore you are required to quickly expand the limits of your PayPal account to enable your account to have a fund maximum limits.    You can take this few steps to expand your limit: Contact the last payer of your account (customer) to send in an additional payment of $200.00 AUD  so that your account limit can be expanded, as soon as this is done, we will credit the total amount of $240.00 AUD  into your account immediately without any further delay.   Note: An alert has also been sent to (customer) regarding the $200.00 AUD additional payment he has to send to you, we will secure this transaction with high priority so that neither the buyer nor the seller will lose their funds in this transaction. Sincerely, PayPal®

[kernowlass]

@Plkwa17 

I can see its fraud from the first 2 words, paypal does not call you Dear Customer or Member, Paypal addresses you by your full name Dear John Smith for example.

Secondly...........

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.