Am I being scammed wanting me to pay a fee to receive money ??

[Sfmlb24]

So I’m to be paid for a service (creator) $5000 but they are using bitcoin crypto into my account but I have to pay a £150 fee to receive the money from them, I’m very skeptic, especially if I lose the £150. I don’t really understand it at all. Am I being scammed ??

[kernowlass]

@Sfmlb24 

SCAM

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

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.