Prohibited Business Verticals

  • Illegal drugs (substances designed to mimic illegal drugs, synthetic cannabis, herbal smoking blends, herbal incense, and HCG/HGH-like substances)

  • Products/services to be used to create drugs or grow them

  • Pyramid Selling / Schemes

  • Multi-Level Marketing

  • Escort Agencies / Massage Parlours / Sexual Services

  • Promotion of Prostitution
  • Timeshare and timeshare maintenance
  • Independent financial advisers (IFA), payday loans and unsecured loan/lines
  • Counterfeit Goods/Replicas
  • Trade of weapons, ammunitions, military arms, explosive devices, and firearm parts

  • Products/services that promote hate, violence, discrimination, terrorism, harassment, or abuse racism, religious persecution, glorification of war

  • Products designed to circumvent copyright protection techniques
  • Providing gambling services in jurisdictions where this is illegal or (where applicable) offering gambling services without a valid license to the relevant jurisdiction.

  • Illegal products/services or any service providing peripheral support of illegal activities
  • Fake references and other services/products that foster deception (including fake IDs and government documents)

  • Mail order spouse and international match-making services

  • Social media “click farms” (i.e., the sale of clicks/likes/reviews/endorsements on social

  • Telemarketing companies involved with the following methods of operations
  • Offering a free gift, prize, or sweepstakes/contest entry as an inducement to purchase products/services

  • Inbound telemarketing companies that receive calls as the result of post cards or similar mailings (as opposed to catalogue or media advertising).

  • Selling products/services as an agent for a third party
  • Merchants engaged in any form of deceptive marketing practice including but not limited

  • Merchants offering substantial rebates or special incentives (e.g., free gift, prize, sweepstakes)

  • Fake dating profiles: merchants actively using fake profiles, chats etc. and making promises to users on a platform

  • Aggressive software; malware including but not limited to computer viruses, worms, Trojan horses, spyware

  • Merchants that have ransom-like or extortion-like basis for their business model (e.g., mugshot removal)
  • Negative response marketing techniques by any type of merchant (i.e., customer is automatically charged if they do not return the merchandise at the end of a free trial period)

  • Jammers or devices that are designed to block, jam, or interfere with cellular and personal communication device/signals (e.g., GPS), Decryption and descrambler products including mod chips, Spy devices / services / software

  • Proxy avoidance/ Anonymizer sites

  • Usenet Merchants/ Internet Forums/ Bulletin Board Systems

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