International transaction fee

[VitKrasnov]

Hello, my friend received a notification (attached). The sender said to her that to receive the money, she has to pay some international transaction fee. Do you have such a notification? I suspect that it is some kind of scam. Can you help me with this issue? And this is the text of the message he wrote to my friend after he sent her the screenshot (attached) "Baby this is what I got on my end saying your payments is pending due to the international transaction fee charge which occurred and will be completed once you sort that out okay. Do you know how to make the purchase of bitcoin to sort that out?" And later he sent a key to cryptocurrency wallet - [removed] Is this a scam? Attachment text: Payment status: pending Receiver should purchase the 100 bitcoin needed to clear off international transaction fee to complete the payment for money to be available on receiver.

[Santchan]

I'm also going through this right now. the person wants me to deposit 130 dollars in btc so that I can receive it. the following message was sent to me. " Transaction pending due to nonapproval from accounting department. To complete this transaction make adeposit of $130 btc to allow yourPayPal receive payment from trustwallet funds" I found it suspicious and came looking for an answer and saw that I'm not the only one.

[PayPal_Meghan]

Hello @Santchan, 

Thanks for joining the PayPal Community to investigate your question! 

I'm sorry to hear about the suspicious email you received, but I'm glad you were able to determine it wasn't legitimate. When you have a few moments, please forward the email to phishing@paypal.com. You can learn more about how to spot and report phishing/scam emails on our Help Center here and about common scams here. 

I hope this helps; have a wonderful rest of your day! 

- Meghan