Scam with neosurf

[galdon28]

Hi Community,

I think I've stumbled across a scam on Paypal.

So... a person wanted to send me money over Paypal (about 3k USD) and this person requested me to buy a Neosurf code to secure the payment as it's required by his bank and give it to him.

I got the 1 pic confirming it. They look real, although I have not seen any option on Paypal asking you to buy anything from external providers.

Hopefully I didn't fall in this trap. Anyone could confirm if there is such requirement by any US bank?

Thanks!

[GabbysClout]

Its a scam. Don’t do it. Paypal will never ask for extra labels.

[kernowlass]

@galdon28 

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.