Yesterday my girlfriend   MohreGregs got a shady E-Mail from "PayPal".

The E-Mail stated that someone send her 300 $ but can't access it because her account isn't a business account. Then the email stated that the she could access this money if she asks sender to send her 200 $ more dollars because then PayPal would be able to credit the 500$ and then she can refund the 200$. Which would result that my girlfriend would loose 200$.

Some more additional context why this has anything to do with you as an artist or commissioner.

My GF and the Artist are kinda good with each other and my girlfriend offered to be as an middle man for the payment because the Commissioner had trouble paying via boosting with his PayPal.

She accepted and we didn't know that something like this would happen. She told the artist and was glad she didn't started yet or anything else.

However. If you plan to ever to this and get such shady emails. Check the following of the mail:
- Does the email (from paypal) greets you with your full name
- If it does. please check if your email includes your full name (thats mostly the part where they get your full name)
- Is the email from any paypal.com address
- as the scam mail was some thing reply.paypal.co[at]gmail.com please check this because this is the most important step to identify these.
- And the best step to make sure if it isn't fake! Check your paypal account. You will get a notification for 100% if your account would have problems like these.

None the less. I have to say that this scam is somewhat stupid because the person clearly doesn't know how PayPal and some of it limits work.

IIRC. If you don't have a business account you mostly can't even accept money as a service and if you can the default limit is 1k and not 500.

And last but not least. Here is a screenshot of the mail, so you know what it would look like

If you ever give people the opportunity to pay like this because they can't use boosty for whatever reason. Have caution

Thanks for reading and stay safe!