APPENDIX NO. 5b TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS - LIST OF EXCLUDED PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
Transaction Payments in respect of the following products and services are excluded:
- Adoption agencies
- Any products or services promoting racism/discriminations
- Bestiality
- Contraband products and products banned to be imported
- Counterfeit products infringing copyright and registered trademarks
- Cryptocurrency traders
- Email lists, social media followers and accounts
- E-wallet operators
- Exotic and/or protected animals
- Financial products and/or services offered by institutions without relevant license from local authority (e.g. currency exchange, sales of securities, investment clubs, money orders, travelers cheques)
- Firearms, Weapons and/or ammunition and/or gas launchers
- Gambling without a license granted by the relevant local authority
- Products and services which cannot be sold pursuant to the applicable law
- Products and services connected with pornography, bestiality, with content appealing to disseminate hatred in connection with national, ethnic, racial, worldview diversities, content infringing personal rights
- Online services with pornographic content, e.g., chat rooms, video cameras, VOD movies
- Illegal drugs, intoxicants, including designer drugs, as well as equipment and technology used for their farming, production, trade, bath salts, etc.
- Intermediaries accepting payments on behalf of many recipients without legal authority or not meeting the requirements of Payment Schemes
- Malware, e.g., rogue ware, viruses, etc.
- Marketplace operators
- Natural products and dietary supplements which can be treated as miracle product (using deceptive marketing)
- People/organ trafficking
- Pyramid schemes, ponzi schemes, other “get rich quickly” schemes and Argentinian schemes
- Prescription drugs, pharmaceutical products and assimilated “natural products
- Sub-aggregation (way of operating)
- Any kind of products or services related to Terrorism sponsorship/money laundering
- Forex brokers – unregulated or regulated in off-shore countries
- Websites depicting violence, and extreme sexual violence
- Tobacco products and e-cigarettes (MCC 5993)
- Travel Agencies and Tour Operators (MCC 4722)
- Computer network/information services (all cyberlockers) (MCC 4816)
- Digital goods – games (only fantasy sports gaming) (MCC 5816)
- Drug stores; pharmacies (only prescription drugs) (MCC 5122/5912)
- Direct marketing-travel related arrangement services (MCC 5962)
- Direct marketing-outbound telemarketing merchants (MCC 5966)
- Direct marketing-inbound telemarketing merchants (MCC 5967)
- Direct marketing-continuity/subscription merchants (MCC 5968)
- Cryptocurrencies traders, exchange platforms etc. (MCC 6051)
- Securities - brokers/dealers (sales of certain types of securities, e.g., Initial coin offerings (ICOs), Cryptocurrency options trading) (MCC 6211)
- Timeshares (MCC 7012)
- Dating and escort services (MCC 7273)
- Betting, including Lottery Tickets, Casino Gaming Chips, Off-Track Betting, and Wagers at Race Tracks (MCC 7995)