Paying in bitcoin to receive payment

[kain3ss]

Someone sent me a payment but is asking for a $150 bitcoin fee in order for me to verify and receive my payment. I also received an email stating this and that there is a pending transaction, but upon checking my Paypal account, there isn’t any pending transactions at all. Is this a scam?

[kernowlass]

@kain3ss 

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.