Scam

[Aggienessie]

Recently im selling my dress online. The buyer offer to pay through paypal. Since i dont use paypal i made new account. She then told me she paid $117 thru paypal, and since my account not a premium,i have to upgraded it by she sending me another $883 to reach a $1000 limit. Now she asked me to refund the money of $883 to the details she gave me with random name, through Osko payment so the $1000 release. I feels like im getting a scam. Luckily my bank got blocked due to this transaction. And she kept asking me to send the $1000 back 🙄. Which i didnt even see it on hold on my account . Is this a scam?

[kernowlass]

@Aggienessie 

100% SCAM.

You never pay any upfront fee as a seller or to receive payments.

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/ your bank or any other 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.