Token required to receive funds

[dorothka]

Well, I'm 99% this is a scam but I can't find the answer anywhere. I work as a freelance translator. This company that seemed legit hired me for a job. The rate I was going to be pais seemed ok, everything looked ok. I asked to be paid through paypal. They sent me the invoice with much more money that I was expecting but the transaction ID didn't return any results and of course there was no money on my account. They told me to check my spam, which I did. There was a email from paypal telling 'Transaction needs a token deposit of $150 to complete transaction'. I've never seen that before and of course I reported it. Is this some new kind of scam?

[kernowlass]

@dorothka 

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. The fake paypal emails often go in your SPAM folder.

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.