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I met a person in instagram, and i drew a picture to him for payment, and he said he need a razor gold global worth$10 a gift card for completing the payment, and he send a link of a site to me for buying the e-code, and i enter the card details and purchased the e code and send to him, after that he said he should need another e code worth $10 for the payment. Is this a scam? What should i do now? Im in tension if my account is safe or not?
You never pay any upfront fee as a seller or to receive payments into your paypal balance.
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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This scam has been ongoing for years, there is not just one person doing it. Most scammers get fake i.d.'s for various websites and work from call centres out of Asia somewhere.
Don't mess with them as they have been known to add your email address to some pretty nasty websites.
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