Transaction fees from USA to Italy (receiver)

[Deanora]

Hi, I am located in Italy and I have to receive a payment via PayPal from a relative in the USA. How much I have to pay as a fee and how will I be notified to the amount I have to pay? My relative is sending me this message: “ You will send the X$ fees to my email and after confirmation PayPal disburse your payment to your PayPal” but for what I have read on the internet it works different. Help me, please.

[kernowlass · Accepted solution]

@Deanora 

I would say it was this scam but you said it was a relative???

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/or any other reason to 'accept' a payment.

You would certainly never have to send funds 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.