Prohibited businesses types:
Last Updated: 2023-07-14
• Adult entertainment, pornography
• Virtual currency or other crypto business
• Dating and escort services
• Gambling, online gaming with gambling elements
• Cash for Gold
• Armament and weapons manufacturers, dealers and intermediaries
• Multi-level marketing (MLM)
• Quasi-cash merchants (which include, but aren’t limited to, purchasing travellers cheque, lottery tickets, casino gaming chips, money orders, deposits and wire transfer money orders)
• Cheque cashing
• Shell banks
• Shell companies
• Unregulated charities and other unregulated non-profit organizations
• Tobacco and e-cigarettes
• Fireworks
• HCG weight loss products, Steroids
• ESTA, Immigration Visa/passport services
• Cyberlockers
• Unregulated forex, loan, money services and remittance businesses
• Medical marijuana, cannabis, cannabinoids, CBD oils
• Penny stock trading, binary options trading, equity/mutual funds & AMP
Involvement in any illegal activity or sale of illegal products.
For example:
• Human smuggling and human trafficking
• Child abuse imagery and child pornography
• Illegal financial Instruments, pyramid schemes
• Buying or selling counterfeit goods or replicas of products
• Illegal wildlife trade
• Drugs, cannabis seeds, drug paraphernalia
• Other illegal substances and products
• Illegal in-game item sales
• Human organ trade
• Copyright violation
• Any involvement or content of bestiality, rape, hate, violence etc.
• Jail breaker equipment, software, hacking and cracking materials
• Counterfeit credentials, academic papers, documents etc.
• Sanctions or embargo avoidance related activity
• Any other activity which may be illegal in the country where it‘s conducted.