Scam?

[DanAS2424]

I have a guy saying he's willing to send me $3,500 because it's being generous and helping people but there is a $55 processing fee because he has to use a business account otherwise the amount won't go through is this a scam

[kernowlass]

@DanAS2424 

Common 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 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.