Is this email phishing?

[Tifa88]

I received a message from what looks to be legitimate and it says “PayPal Service via Square” as the sender with a [removed]  email. I’m really worried this is a scam. It says it’s also from a business account and needs some kind of bitcoin voucher and or transaction fee (3% of the payment) and gives some kind of wallet ID and transaction ID and also says “ @contact your sender for your payment verification process with a bitcoin voucher.” Along with a bunch of other things which may just be a copied template of an actual paypal email transaction. The sender said it’s because it’s a business account and they added me to the payroll and because they’re transferring it from bitcoin to usd it does this but it doesn’t show up in my activity and I contacted a PayPal help centre worker online and they weren’t able to put me through to the bitcoin department but they said it was likely phishing, please help!

[kernowlass]

@Tifa88 

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. They will pretend your buyer has to send you more money and then you have to refund them. The refund would be using bitcoin / tokens or another payment processor.

You would certainly never have to send funds/refund 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.