Moneybookers was one of them. Moneybookers, a UK-based service, was founded in July 2001. It promised the same thing as PayPal: The ability to send and receive money to and from all over the world with just an e-mail address. At that time, there were numerous services of similar quality, and the number of those who could offer a distinctive feature among them was very few. Moneybookers was unfortunately not one of them: It was a PayPal clone from the first day it appeared. For the same reason, it was not very successful and sold to Investcorp only 6 years later. Investcorp tried to resell the brand two years later: They were requesting £ 365,000,000. Pay by mobile slots mobile.