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    OP could be working with Zelle legitimately. I'm guessing that the scammer is sending a spoofed email from Zelle to OP (OP gave the scammer their email so they could "transfer" the funds). It'd be a lot easier than trying to set up a fake Zelle website and if the website was fake, they would already be linked up to something financial and wouldn't need OP to send money back Commented Jan 14, 2023 at 18:03
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    @anjama good point, OP could interact with zellepay.com directly (by typing ZELLE into Google, not clicking on any links in emails or whatever!!!!) and then log into their account and then change their email address. Any Zelle correspondence that goes to the old one and not the new one, is fake. Commented Jan 16, 2023 at 9:00
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    @anjama I think based on "they want me to send my buyer back $400 of my own money before they release the $800" the OP is receiving communications from an impostor Zelle. True, they may have also created an account with the real Zelle. Commented Jan 16, 2023 at 14:32
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    @Harper-ReinstateMonica just an addendum to your comment: if you are going to access a website of a company through Google, also avoid clicking on the "sponsored" links (usually the first and up to third ones) as they can be (and have been) used to take users to forged sites. Commented Jan 16, 2023 at 17:25