Payment fees / limit amount

[audekonst]

Hi,

I should receive a payment from the USA of 215$. My currency is euro.

I received this e-mail (in my spam folder) :

"We have a problem crediting your account with $215.00 USD because the status of your account is not a business user which makes your account have limits. This amount seems to be above your limit.
To fully expand your account into a business account and deposit your funds now, contact Brentson immediately to send in additional payment of $100.00 USD into your PayPal account to expand your limit. Soon as this is done , we will credit you with the total of $315.00 USD."

I am pretty sure this is a scam but would like to check with the community if there is indeed a limit of how much money you can receive on a personal account. This is quite a small amount so I got surprised. Also, how can I make sure my account is completely safe ? I have communicated him my PayPal link as well as my email address. I set up security question and double protection when logging in. A bit stressed about this.
Thanks!
 

[kernowlass · Accepted solution]

@audekonst 

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.

[Temp20230320c]

I also encounter the same problems just now. the email was send by a very suspicious email , so i search up on google and found out that this was not a paypal valid email account. I also find out that i can upgrade my paypal account for free and does not need any payment