Facebook Marketplace full of scams.

[Carlock]

Watch out for Patpal scams. Selling online I have avoided another one. This one requires you to upgrade your Mastercard too ‘premium account ‘ in order to deposit money from an article sold. Suspicious. Then you are meant to refund surplus that the fake buyer paid you before you get the funds deposited. This email comes from a PayPal- Notification address.

[kernowlass]

@Carlock 

Glad you weren't caught out, scam has been ongoing for years in one form or another.

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.