I think ive been scammed

[Muncho71]

hi i think i have been scammed. i sold an item for £300. Apparently i needed to open a business account and in order to do this i needed to refund the buyer £250. emails were sent to spam. then i got another request to pay £230 which i haven't . does this sound right?

[kernowlass]

@Muncho71 

You never pay any upfront fee as a seller or to receive funds.

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. They nearly always go in to a spam folder.

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.

[Muncho71]

Thank you . I’ve no idea what I was thinking . It’s so stupid now I think about it. I’ve seen him £250 . Is it too late to do anything about it ? Can PayPal or face book close his account ? Thanks

[kernowlass]

@Muncho71 

How did you send the payment? If you used paypal then did you send using friends/family or goods/services? 

[ClareT1965]

Just had exactly the same scenario saying they would said us £200 via PayPal for us to upgrade if we refund immediately. Realised then the email address was a gmail one . Remembered reading that PayPal would never use a gmail address. Have reported to PayPal. Funnily enough person is now no longer contactable