Does receiver need a gift card for transaction from a business account ?

[Sebastian161]

Does receiver need a gift card for transaction from a business account ? Because someone asked me to buy gift card and send him code so that the transaction could go through.

[kernowlass · Accepted solution]

@Sebastian161 

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.