PayPal emails say must send 3000 before payment is sent

[Harlee18]

From Christopher [removed] To Your Account. This transaction is due to appear in your account shortly *For any questions and other issues regarding this payment, Please reply to this email only and we will gladly help you*. Item # van Description Goods Quantity 1 Price Subtotal $25,000.00 $25,000.00 AUD AUD Shipping and Delivery (Includes any seller handling fees): Insurance (Including Personal Home Delivery Chargers): $3,000.00 AUD Total: $28,000.00 AUD Receivers account details: Account Name Lee [removed] Account Number [removed] BSB Number [removed]  Institution Branch Name Street Address [removed] This Payment will appear in your account statement as "PayPal®_ Wire "Christopher [removed] " Payment sent to account. Commonwealth Bank of Australia RBS Online Services [removed] This is to inform you that you are required to send a sum of $3,000.00 AUD Upfront to the address below via Bank Transfer and get back to us with the Bank Transfer Receipt which is the security tool that will facilitate the prompt release of the fund into your account. As soon as we have received this information from you, we will credit $28,000.00 AUD to your Commonwealth Bank of Australia below is the address where the money is to be sent using Bank Transfer. Below are the courier's bank details: Name: David [removed] Bsb- [removed]  Account number[removed]  Reference-Chris Description: Chris Address Status: Confirmed Please note: We wish to inform you that *Christopher [removed] * has made his intentions known to PayPal that he would like $3,000.00 AUD to be sent to the recipient's address above Bank Transfer. This payment has been deducted from the buyer's account. It has been "APPROVED" but will not be credited to your Commonwealth Bank of Australia until the receipt #

[kernowlass · Accepted solution]

@Harlee18 

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.

[Luckybhaibusine]

Withdrawal paypal payment send my national I'd number [Removed] Ali [Removed] western Union / mail /cash pick up

[kernowlass]

@Luckybhaibusine 

Please edit your post and remove your personal information from this worldwide public forum !!!

[Burnsy68]

Was Christopher from Darwin, working remotely so couldn’t contact you except by email. Did he say he’d get a courier to pick the item up? Did he also offer to do a direct transfer to s as bank account of you didn’t have PayPal? We’ve got someone with a similar name wanting to buy something from us but something feels “off” with the whole situation

[Harlee18]

I’d say from what you have said sounds like the same person definitely

[kernowlass]

@Burnsy68 

@Harlee18 

This scam has been ongoing for about 10 years and I see this same scam at least 3 times a day so hundreds of scammers out there sending out these ''courier'' emails.

No funds in your paypal balance means you have been paid 0, even if pending or on hold they would still show in your paypal account balance.

You do not have to pay a courier BEFORE you get paid so ignore fake scam paypal emails.