London

[Emi11111]

Kindly advise. I have received confirmation of transaction of $8000 to my Paypal account as pending and asking me to purchase $50 bitcoin voucher to verify to receive this payment. My friend agreed to receive this $8k with someone on instagram and asked to use my account. Is this genuine or a fraud. Thank you for your assistance.

[kernowlass]

@Emi11111 

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.