Is it a scam?

[Sjs25]

I am selling an item for £100.00. The buyer wants to pay via PayPal. He sent the money and I got an email saying he paid via a business account and I need to get the buyer to send over £300.00 to me and my acct would be credited with the money. The buyer said he sent the money and now I have to refund his £300.00…. Out of my own money. I don’t have the money in my acct and the payment from me to him didn’t go through. There is nothing on my PayPal account to say this money is waiting to be released to me. Is this a scam to get me to pay him £300.

[kernowlass]

@Sjs25 

SCAM

You never pay any upfront fee as a seller or to receive payments into a Paypal account.

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.

[exerover]

Thank you so much - appreciate your help.