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The Payoneer Services enable customers to receive and make payments in connection with their commercial activity subject to certain eligibility requirements, approvals, limits, and availability, which may depend on your line of business, country of residency or incorporation, applicable anti-money laundering regulations, Payoneer risk management policies or procedures, and other factors used by us to determine such eligibility, limits, and availability from time to time at our sole discretion. Payoneer does not service transactions relating to the following Restricted Lines of Business*:

Illegal

Any criminal or illegal act – e.g. Illegal narcotics, child pornography, human trafficking, terrorist financing, stolen goods, illegal wildlife trade

Adult Services

  • Adult massage or other adult entertainment services
  • Adult pictures, videos, games that include pornographic or obscene content
  • Adult text chat, video chat or online streaming
  • Dating Services
  • Mail order bride, escorting services, prostitution

Affiliates

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Animals and Wildlife

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  • Taxidermy

Chemicals

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  • Industrial chemicals

Corporate Vehicles

  • Shell corporations and company formation, including consulting services in this field
  • Trusts and asset management services

Counterfeit and Copyright

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  • File sharing and streaming websites allowing sharing, viewing or download of copyrighted content

Cyber

  • Cyber protection software development and distribution
  • Sale or promotion of products and/or services that process pop-ups or contain, promote, reference or link to any spyware, malware, virus, back-door, dead drop device or other program installation

Domain Hosting Services

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Drugs and Pharma

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  • Clinical Trials
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Financial Services

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  • Debt elimination, consolidation or reduction services
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  • Venture Capital and investments
  • Wages, salary or payroll
  • Wire transfer money orders

Food Items

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  • Fish and seafood of any kind (fresh, frozen or dry)
  • Fresh food and produce

Gambling

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  • Online or offline contests, sweepstakes, or offering of prizes as an inducement to purchase goods or services

High Value Items and Goods

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  • Sale of spare parts for cars and other vehicles
  • Sale of vehicles (new or used)
  • Used watches, books, or any other high-priced products where chain of custody cannot be verified

Medical

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  • Skin Whitening
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Natural Resources

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Networks

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Travel and Transportation

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Other Services

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  • Esoteric and healing services
  • Multi-level marketing (MLM)
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