Mysterious £200 PayPal deposit

[friskybivalves]

My DD has just received £200 via PayPal from a random man in Germany - minus a £7.50 handling fee. So there is a sizeable chunk of unexpected money sitting there in her account tagged as 'pending'. We have the man's email address but would prefer PayPal to sort it in case we get embroiled with some kind of nefarious back and forth.

Does this smack of a known scam to anyone or do we think he has just pressed the wrong button somewhere?

Aré you sure she hasn't given any services and is now playing unaware? There was someone recently who had money paid into their daughters bank on they were doing something slightly dodge.

Id flag it up with PayPal before doing anything

www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/7zwj3u/somebody_i_dont_know_sent_me_money_through_paypal/

Could be a scam

Thanks all. I'm sure she's not done anything dodge. She's only 13 and has PayPal because she occasionally eBays stuff for us when we can't be bothered . We will go through the official channels and not engage. It just feels very iffy.

Have you heard anything from PayPal, @friskybivalves