Verification fee

[jmomberg]

My son sold an item to a person and payment was done through PayPal. He received an email from PayPal to deposit an amount of $100 to verify the transaction and for the money to be transferred to his account. This payment should be done through Shoprite or Checkers

 I this normal or is it a scam

[kernowlass]

@jmomberg 

SCAM

You never pay any upfront fee as a seller or to receive payments into a Paypal account.

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.