Skrill to stop serving Zimbabwe in April

Skrill, Skrill Zimbabwe

Skrill the popular digital wallet has announced in an email to its Zimbabwean customers that it will cease providing services in the country in April.

The message email sent reads as follows:

We regret to inform you that Skrill will soon cease to provide services to customers registered in your country.


Your account will stay active until 20 April 2021. On this date, your Skrill account will automatically be closed. Until 20 April 2021, you will still be able to transact and withdraw funds from your account, but you will not be able to upload further funds to your account.


To withdraw your funds please go to your account.


We’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for using Skrill. If you have any queries, please get in touch with our customer support team


All the best,


The Skrill Team

For those who may have never heard of Skrill, its a payments facilitator that was founded in 2001. It then spread to 120 countries across the globe and allowed customers to trade in 40 currencies. On top of being a wallet it offers cross-border payments via it’s remittance service Skrill Money Transfer.

Another feature of Skrill that made it particularly popular was that it allows customers to buy and sell cryptos. This is a feature that we recently saw PayPal launch not so long ago.

To those familiar with the platform they may have seen this coming because Skrill stopped opening accounts in Zimbabwe some time ago. This might not have at the time been the portend of an eventual exit but I am sure many speculated that it was coming.

Its complete withdrawal from Zimbabwe is unfortunate. And further limits the financial freedom that those who managed to open accounts way back enjoyed.

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  1. Phinny

    I am trying to withdraw my funds to my Zimbabwe bank account, but I am getting the error message that my country is not supported when I try to add a Zimbabwe bank account. Has anyone found a way around this? I have not used my Skrill account in a while.

    1. Gary

      Phinny, let’s sell the Skrill.

      Email me ASAP: nkiieznut@gmail.com

      1. Anonymous

        Thank you, I have sent you an email

  2. Morris

    transfer to your VISA card

  3. James

    Haina basa Skrill.

  4. Inquirer

    Skrill was never desperately needed in the first
    place. Just adde
    added more colour, thats
    that’s allll

    1. Anonymous

      Reality is that international financial access is getting tighter, most international online money wallets and financial brokers are quickly banishing ZIM

    2. tweeter

      depends on your line of business

  5. 2021

    Do not worry, let’s show them we Zimbabweans for sure, we move on, the time will come they will be back and we be long gone 😂😂😂

  6. Anonymous

    It’s time we move to perfect money

  7. Mai Jonh

    Airtm is emerging and proving to be friendly. Lets take this opportunity utilize it

  8. Anonymous

    Such a pity only hearing this name for the first time when its no longer valid lol

  9. Bryan

    I think its time to move on to perfect money. if thrz a perfect money what’sapp grup that u know pliz add me too.

  10. Fred

    Hi, for those in need to withdraw funds, I use Wise:

    https://wise.prf.hn/l/7DBLjvb

  11. Jerry M

    https://t.me/joinchat/Swed1c3uol9hOTI1

    For great free trading tips and education join the chat

  12. George

    Payoneer is a million times better than Skrill and it’s available to Zimbabweans.

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