Payment fee

[Chriinna]

So i met this guy, and he has now offered to help me with a financial issue, but he says I need to pay a payment fee for the money to get transferred to my PayPal? I don't see any pending transactions on my side either. It seems fishy, but I've never received large amounts on PayPal before so I'm not sure if it's a scam or no?

[kernowlass · Accepted solution]

@Chriinna 

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.

[Chriinna]

Just an additional question, he keeps claiming it's because he is using a business account that's i need to pay the fee, and that's somehow different. That's not true right?

[kernowlass]

@Chriinna 

Nope, he's a scammer.

[Chriinna]

Thank you so much for taking the time to reply, i did have a feeling it was a scam i just didn't want to seem dramatic before i was 100%, PayPal is still new to me.