Payment notification received no money in account

[Woody956]

I received an email form PayPal saying gazelle sent me money but when I go to my account and check my activity there is activity or money in my account my email has been confirmed and yet nothing has shown up in my account it's been 3 days know and nothing has changed

[DPCreations]

How do you know for a fact that the email notice was from PayPal?

Were there any instructions in the email?

Were you expecting to receive money?

Did you sell something?

[Woody956]

It was from PayPal cause all the information checked out it was for the correct amount that gazelle told me I was gonna receive after I sold my computer and it gave me instructions on what to do with the money to do if the money doesn't show up to confirm my email which I did but yet nothing has shown up

[DPCreations]

Seems like a scam to me.  Tha'ts why you have no money.  PayPay does not require a seller to send payment notification for release of funds; that's what scammers do.

You need to make sure you never send any goods until the money shows up in your PayPal account.

What was the REAL email address of the payment notification, not the spoofed address.

Of course it had all the right information because you provided this person with that information; that's how scams work.

[Woody956]

The email says it's from PayPal it says <removed> those quotations are there in the email

[Woody956]

*Aren't there

[DPCreations]

Check the expanded header information of the email to see the real origination point.

Scammers are good at spoofing an email address so you see what looks like a valid email address which hide the real one.

[Woody956]

It's the same thing email it didn't change and the payment notification came from PayPal not from the seller I never received any email from gazelle stating that the money was sent or anything, what I was told from PayPal is that gazelle sent me the money and it was the correct amout that I was promised

[DPCreations]

As long as you didn't ship anything, then nothing to be concerned about.  The sender will take care of the issue.

[Woody956]

I sent my computer to gazelle.com because they need to give you an estimate from there they offer you money for your computer and if you accept the amount, you can either receive a check or receive the money through PayPal I selected PayPal it takes about 24 to 48 hours to receive the money and I have yet to receive anything from PayPal even after I got the email from PayPal saying gazelle sent me the money