Is there paypal insurance activation fees

[Shivani6]

I got a art commission from a client through instagram. She said she will pay me $300 dollars and asked my PayPal address. I gave it to her and then I received a mail in spam folder saying that the money cannot be credited to my PayPal account since my account is not set to business user and my limit is less so I can't accept $300 but I have already set it to business account. Then It was written that client has to pay additional $200 to to me to raise the limit of my account. She said she paid it and I even recied a mail saying that she paid. Then I was asked to refund it to her through PayPal friends and family option and only after I refund her $200 I can get the money which PayPal has kept on hold I.e 300+200 =$500 . I couldn't pay it through PayPal friends and family option since it was defaulted to goods and services option and I couldn't change it. So she suggested to pay me through apple game card . And I did the purchase. And I emailed to that PayPal email to verify the PayPal process. Then they sent another mail asking me to pay for some activation fee and it has been already cut from my clients bank account .it was asking for me to additional $300 since it was already cut from the client . At this time I got suspicious . It this a scam?. I already paid them $200 .

[kernowlass]

@Shivani6 

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 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.

[ArtsyPluto]

Is there away to get my money back? I was scammed like this and I only have 36 dollars to my name

[kernowlass]

@ArtsyPluto 

Did you use paypal to send any money or not?

[ArtsyPluto]

Yes I did, but now they sent back the money? It solved it self..

[Mj0608]

Hello! I got the same issue. The person bugs me about sending money. But for me I don't give $200 yet since I don't have that much money since I'm a student. Is it a clear fraud? Or a real thing, they even sent me a Gmail with paypal name. Help I'm getting stressed. If it is true, can I give the payment back when I still havent hold the money yet?

  

[kernowlass]

@Mj0608 

did you actually read this thread and my above post???

[PayPal_Shradha]

Hello @Mj0608,

Thanks for visiting PayPal's Community Forum. 

I can understand receiving this kind of notification can be a bit confusing. We are sorry to hear that you have received a email notification mentioning that you may need to send a money to receive a big amount. What you describe receiving is a common ploy that fraudsters use to trick people using email. Kindly do not click on any link mentioned in the email.

Also, whenever you receive this type of notifications and email, then always check your resolution centre by log in to your PayPal account. If you didn't find any related details in the resolution centre means it's a fraud. Here's a great Help Center article on How to spot fake, fraudulent, or phishing PayPal emails or websites. There's also some information here that may be helpful, and this article as well. 

I hope that helps!

Warm Regards,

Shradha

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[Azeylg05]

Is it possible to get the money back? I recently encountered a very similar scam, with the emails and everything, it's so similar to what previous people here have described

[kernowlass]

@Azeylg05 

If you sent the funds NOT using paypal then unfortunately not as nothing would have been done on paypals site???