Paypal isn't a scam. I speak from own experience and i have never had any issues with making transactions to someone else.
The only issues I have had with Paypal are the high fees for a transaction.
I do agree with this I did many transactions with PayPal from buying from online shops. And there's no problem that I did experienced from it everything went smoothly. People are just the ones who are making some bad ideas and using this payment processor as a medium of their shady activities with their victims.
Paypal as a buyer is great but paypal as a seller is terrible since the buyers will try sometimes to get advantage of the chargebacks and most of the time paypal sides with them, this is one of the reasons paypal is not accepted in the forum as a medium to buy bitcoins.