Help needed. this looks illegitimate

[LH79]

[removed] The buyer has messaged me to say they have received an email via PayPal, do I have the same email….? I received an email from the above email address asking for them to make an extra £300 payment to ‘expand’ my account to business. Sounds very dodgy to me. Never had this before, please advise ?

[kernowlass]

@LH79 

100% 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/expand 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.