is this fake?

[Fr1pan]

So Recently, a guy wanted to buy something from me for 15 gbp but when he claimed that he had sent the money, I had recieve an email from [removed], that I need to ask him to pay me 50 extra money. So I did then the same email sent, said "you have to refund 100 gbp first to be credited." the guy who "sent" me the money even has the proof of sending money. Is this fake? Please help ASAP

[kernowlass · Accepted solution]

@Fr1pan 

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.