I wanted to receive money from a good friend who life’s in the USA but he want to have like nearly 500€ as fee. The amount I should receive is 4000€. He said I need to buy some USTD for the fees. First it was 40€ than 150€ and now another 250€. I told him I would contact PayPal because that’s pretty much money just for fees. You think he wants to scam me? I don’t know because he’s a friend maybe it is like that in USA?
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.
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I said to him, I’m done with him because of the scam and he said, it’s normal to “buy?” USTD for the fee to receive money. He told me to buy more on MoonPay.
