Somebody sent me this link:

h ttps://sandbox.paypal.com/myaccount/summary

And told me:

β€œSign it up so I can send money there and you can transfer it to your normal PayPal”

Can this be an scam? #asknostr

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Is it someone you know?

No

Don't do it

Ok Thank you!

Yep, don't know why they would say that, sounds sketchy though so probably better to avoid interacting with them.

Yes and no, weird because sandbox is normally the dev/testing environment of a website

Thank you! I guess they will just show me test money there but it will try to get mine if I have.

Sounds like a scam. They will probably send you fake money and try to get your real money somehow. Or just send you fake money in exchange for whatever good or service you are selling

β€œThe PayPal sandbox is a self-contained, virtual testing environment that simulates the live PayPal production environment...

When you initiate a transaction through a sandbox account, PayPal creates a mock transaction that behaves exactly like a transaction in the live environment.”

https://developer.paypal.com/tools/sandbox/

Wow I didn’t know that. Thank you!

Happy to help! Glad you thought to ask someone. Stay safe out there.

Bruh. This thing should not be public WTF?!!

The obvious response to them would be just send it via the production site.

PayPal is a scam on itself, let alone a "sandbox"! :P