For workers actually living in Venezuela, the process of withdrawal was even more challenging. Most global payment systems such as PayPal didn’t allow money transfers into Venezuela. Most stores and shops in Venezuela didn’t accept payments from the ones that do. This meant workers needed to convert their digital funds into cash to pay for basic goods and services. But where the money arrived online in US dollars, the cash needed to be in Venezuelan bolivares. The black market to convert one to the other abounded with scams and high commissions.
