Skrill is an electronic purse that was also previously known as MoneyBookers, in which payments and withdrawals of prizes could be made in Colombia with the only requirement of having a valid email address.
In addition to being one of the most recognized methods internationally. Multiple pages of online gambling in Colombia and the rest of the world recommend Skrill as a payment method for electronic transactions, however, like Paypal at the time, the platform has become unusable.
In several forums specialized in online gambling tools, where users enter and comment their opinions, questions or suggestions as the case may be, they express that they have been trying to enter the portal for several days but that this continues to fall with the appearance of a sign such as the one it appears in the image above or simply one with the message "You cannot access this website"
"I tried to open it, but the page of Coljuegos of the government has blocked it and it appears as an illegal page ... I do not know why," said an Internet user in one of the forums under the pseudonym of enzo
This has affected the users of the network because this was one of the most used tools by them, however, many of them do not understand the reason for the ban while others express their anger at the action they hold responsible for Coljuegos:
"Apparently there is no Skiller for Colombia, what a shame, definitely for me it was the best purse to which we had access", said Rist andg in one of these specialized forums.
"Skrill is not a game site, it is a e-wallet like any other, that the inept people do not understand is obvious. In addition, those prohibitions of playing online on websites that are not theirs comes out as a suicide, the websites of Coljuegos are never going to be trust as before "assured Kretzfeld in the forum.
"That's why we are a third-world country in everything and even the postal service is disgusting, they forbid everything that is competition for them and it's that simple, they did the same with PayPal when it was starting to be used to pay in Colombia, now they want it charge VAT of 19% to the entertainment platforms (Netflix and others) and in the end they steal everything xD hahahaha. Everything is summarized to financial interests, so get used to it as soon as they see that many Colombians are taking money out of something they go and van or forbid it, that's why it's better to do things quietly.
And Skrill is just a e-wallet xD hahahaha, but those idiots put it as a betting site. "Wrote Fabian485 in the forum.
On the other hand, several Internet users recognize that it is easy to deal with these problems by offering simple solutions such as DNS change.
"Today I realized that the XXXXXX of Coljuegos have blocked Skrill, well is just necessary to change the DNS and its alright, but who happens the same? I have Claro as an ISP. "Clarified Kreutzfeld
It is important to remember that the blocking of pages has been done for those that encourage online gambling since the creation of the eGaming law, which covers most forms of online gambling, such as online casinos, poker, sports betting, fantasy sports and much more.
To access the market, operators of online casinos and sports betting must now perform the processes demanded by Coljuegos to obtain the license or operating permit in the country.
Law was born due to the problem of the online gambling in Colombia, where foreign casinos weren´t regulated and was very easy for them to dominate it and leave out the locals, also being established in other countries were very few actions that were left to Coljuegos to regulate the market.
