Am I being scammed

[MAsso1720]

Buyer buys a bed then says they have paid £500 into my PayPal account but it’s on hold as there is an issue, they have to send a further £200, I must send the £200 back to them to receive my £500?

[kernowlass]

@MAsso1720 

100% SCAM !!
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 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.

[MAsso1720]

Thank you for confirming my suspicions, they have become very pushy, saying they will report me to the police for stealing their money, I haven’t received any

[kernowlass]

@MAsso1720 

Yes threatening to report you to the police etc is what they do, they want to scam you after all.

Just ignore them and delete and further messages.