Is this legit email or not?

[j1r1]

Hi all, is this legit email or not? “This PayPal® payment has been successfully deducted from the sender’s (name surname) account and has been "APPROVED" but the money can’t be credited into your account at this time due to your account limit. Sender need to send an additional $200 to upgrade your account limit to business account and verified so as to secure both the sender and the receiver.” I am receiving miney for the first time but it seems a bit suspicious to me. Please advise. Thanks much! Jiri

[kernowlass · Accepted solution]

@j1r1 

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/or any other reason to 'accept' a payment.

You would certainly never have to send funds 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.

[j1r1]

Thank you very much for your advise. Very much appreciated.