Talk:Skrill

message: Could an established user please add to the "Major drawbacks as reported by users include:" section that Moneybookers refuse to refund money stolen from an account by criminals. We recently lost £450.07 in 4 Send Money transactions to moneybookers@pay-pro.com and multipurposeadmin@spidernet.com.cy on 24 and 25 April 2008. This cleared the account. Maybe they hacked the login, maybe it was an inside job, moneybookers aren't saying. All they said was "Unfortunately the hacked ammount cannot be refunded - we are really sorry for the inconvenience caused." - Moneybookers333 (talk) 17:07, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moneybookers won't refund stolen money 

message: Ok, someone added this...
However, according to ebay Canada's country manager Jordan Banks Moneybookers is still an acceptable form of payment.
...And now I'm confused. I've asked eBay support for the official line. They should be getting back to me in a bit. Jasongetsdown 14:44, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: They told me no as well. I've been busy so I didn't get back to this. I'm removing  that line. There's sufficient evidence to show its not true. Jasongetsdown 17:47, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  straight poop 

message: as stated at http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/accepted-payments-policy.html   -- (James McNally)  (talkpage)  02:35, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ebay now accepts moneybookers.com 

message: "Moneybookers claim to have over 2.4 million users and processed over €2,000 million in transactions" - is this per year, per day? --Cryout 07:14, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Specify time period please 

message: anyone can explain this fee, by using an example? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nkour (talk • contribs) 23:33, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Currency conversion fee between USD, GBP and EUR is 0.95% 

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Please remove Affiliate spamming, thanks --Hu12 (talk) 20:09, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Affiliate spamming of [[Moneybookers]]

message: I find it interesting that this page has been locked for editing, yet requests source information.  The following is an article from the Baltimore Sun, a credible news outlet. 
Car Bargains Used in Wire Payment Fraud
If someone overseas is offering to sell you a popular car for less than its Kelley Blue Book value, don't get rolled over, the Better Business Bureau of Greater Maryland warned.
Advertising such cars through online classifieds and trade magazines, scam artists pose as sellers from outside the country. To give the buyer a false sense of security, the seller claims the transaction will be completed through Moneybookers.com, which is a United Kingdom-based service that is similar to PayPal.com.
Follow-up e-mail messages from the seller are drafted to appear to be from Moneybookers. Buyers are then asked to send a fully insured and refundable 30 percent down payment on the car and they're instructed to wire the money to the seller in London, contrary to Moneybookers' policies.
The BBB warned that this scam has developed into a multilevel strategy in which consumers are sent e-mail modeled after the Moneybookers format. Links to online chats with scammers posing as Moneybookers reps are included in the e-mail to lure unsuspecting buyers.
The scam has been so successful that documented reports to the BBB have shown that some eager buyers lost thousands - and then sent an additional 30 percent to the scam artists.
When it comes to sending money via wire services, take Western Union's advice: The Western Union Money Transfer Service is not intended to send money to someone you don't know.
Americanpooje (talk) 22:13, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It is protected, but only for those people who are not logged in or if logged in, but their account is less than 4 days old.  Since you just created your account today, you will be unable to edit this article until sometime on 22 April.  If you believe something should be in the article, put a draft here on the talk page and other editors will be along, review, help make better and maybe insert into the article.  Please ensure that the text you want to put in is written in a neutral point of view with reliable sources so the information can be verified.  If I can be of any assistance let me know, either here or on my talk page.  Jons63 (talk) 22:49, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm heard Moneybookers is still an active scam.--82.212.85.183 (talk) 18:39, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moneybookers impostors scam - Buyer Beware!!!

message: Moneybookers is a payment service as well as a money transfer service - can someone edit the type definition in the box at the top of the page to read 'Online Payment and Money Transfer Service'?  Thanks!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tobyjwalsh (talk • contribs) 11:04, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Type 

message: The parent company of Moneybookers is now 'Investcorp Technology Partners' - this needs to be amended as is it currently reads Gatcombe which is a factual error.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tobyjwalsh (talk • contribs) 11:06, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parent company 

message: I would like to question the objectivity of this article.
It is my concern that the author might be Skrill itself.
Please add citations and make sure that this article meet the wikipedia standards.
--109.70.49.30 (talk) 23:39, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Naturally, feel free to improve it further. kashmiri (talk) 21:22, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Very nice. I wanna thank you for your fine work on this Kashmiri, but I don't know where to message you. It has really helped a lot!
--173.255.160.184 (talk) 22:49, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Autobiography? 

message: The lead says " Also, US-based customers cannot receive money from non-US accounts, and non-US customers cannot upload funds using cards or accounts located in the United States."  But should it say something like "US based customers cannot send money to, nor receive money from, non-US accounts"?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.127.103.208 (talk) 20:05, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  This might be a bit confusing as it is unclear whether the word "account" would be used for Moneybookers accounts or for bank accounts. I have not researched the topic in detail (I only have first-hand knowledge that I can send money from my non-US Moneybookers account to my US bank account). If you are willing and able to look the precise info up on MB's website and share the results along with a reference it would help a lot. kashmiri 20:14, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  I went through Moneybookers T&C and also did a quick Google search, and it seems that US accounts no longer face any restrictions. One blogger  posted that MB support informed them that as of May 2012 US restrictions were to be lifted. I edited the article text correspondingly. kashmiri 13:04, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  US to non US and non US to US both banned? 

message: They are pure scammers who made their online "service" to look like a legal one, but in fact this is just a shell with nothing inside. Once you upload a small amount to your account balance from previously verified credit card and then try to withdraw it back either to visa card or bank account, you get an email like this:
 Dear %USERNAME%,
 We would like to inform you that your account is temporarily suspended for payments following a routine security audit.
 In order to lift the restrictions imposed on your account, please comply with the following requests:
 1. For what purpose are you using your Skrill  account?
 2. Provide the following documents:
 -       A full colour copy of a valid, official identification document; such as your international passport (double page), national identity card or drivers licence (front and back). This is required in order for us to verify your identity.
 -       A copy of a paper utility bill (Gas Bill/Electricity Bill) or bank statement issued in the last three months clearly displaying your name and address that has been received at the registered postal address detailed on your Skrill  account. This is required in order for us to verify your address.
 The required documents/information should be sent via email to security@skrill.com.
 Please accept our apologies for any possible inconvenience, however Skrill  must adhere to strict security standards which are there to protect your account privacy. Please be aware that your account will remain frozen until you comply with this request.
 We thank you in advance for your cooperation in this matter.
 Kind regards,
 Skrill  Security
After that you can try to contact them as much as you like and you will NEVER receive a single response. Moreover, you will not even see that your account has been blocked when you are logged it, you may even think that you have wrongly speficied your birth date when creating an account because you will get "transfer failed" message every time after specifying your birth date when trying to withrdaw your money back. It even seems that they have a support ticket system because the email they send has ticket number attahced, but even this is just a decoration with nothing behind because you will never get any reply, and you cannot access your previously sent requests via their "help" system in any way!
Aaleksanyants (talk) 07:31, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Skrill turned to scam 

message: I have replaced almost all primary sources with secondary. Unfortunately, not all citations could be supplied with really reliable sources. Yet I still believe that the verification of the article is in a much better state than it was in October 2011 when the refimprove template had been added. I am going to remove it if there is no disagreement on this. Enivid (talk) 19:02, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Refimprove template 

message: Considering placing the following template on the article. 
Netscr1be (talk) 21:02, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  untitled 

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