Prohibited business activities

  • Crypto currency exchange, ICO;
  • Bearer shares and bonds;
  • Any item that violates any law, statute, ordinances or regulations;
  • Tobacco products;
  • Alcoholic beverages (including beer and wine);
  • Pharmaceuticals subject to international phase outs or bans;
  • Diamond trading without Kimberley Certification;
  • Indecent and obscene material including child pornography;
  • Production, trade, storage, or transport of significant volumes of hazardous chemicals, or commercial scale usage of hazardous chemicals;
  • Prescription drugs, drugs and drug paraphernalia (including narcotics, steroids and certain controlled substances that present a risk);
  • Nutritional additives;
  • Weapons, munitions and defense equipment (including without limitation, knives, guns, firearms or ammunition);
  • Trading of fireworks, explosives and nuclear weapons;
  • Satellite and cable TV descramblers;
  • Pornography (including child pornography or related hardcore content or services of any kind);
  • Adult material and adult advertising;
  • Escort, massage pariours;
  • Prepaid phone and credit cards;
  • Human body parts and pathogens;
  • Material which incites violence, hatred, racism or is considered obscene;
  • Government IDs and licenses including replicas and novelty items and any counterfeit products;
  • Unlicensed or illegal lotteries or gambling services (including without limitation the use of or participation in illegal gambling houses, illegal sports betting, casino games and poker games). Monevium may suspend or terminate Your Payment Account at any time or refuse to execute or reverse a Payment Transaction if believe that You directly or indirectly use or have used Your Payment Account for or regarding illegal gambling transactions. Countries where online gambling is illegal include the United States of America, Turkey, China, Malaysia and Israel. This list is not exhaustive and it is Your responsibility to ensure that you do not use Monevium services for transactions that may be considered illegal in Your jurisdiction;
  • Unregistered charity services;
  • Items which encourage or facilitate illegal activities, prepaid debit cards or other stored value cards that are not associated with a merchant and are not limited to purchases of products or services;
  • Unauthorised processing or payment aggregation products or services; multi-level marketing, pyramid selling or Ponzi schemes, matrix programmes or other “get rich quick” schemes or high yield investment programmes;
  • Goods or services that infringe the intellectual property rights of natural other persons (trademark, patent, copyright);
  • Uncoded/miscoded gaming, timeshares or property reservation payments (on and off plan);
  • Cash collection services:
    • Trade in wildlife or wildlife products regulated under CITES;
    • Radioactive materials production or trade;
    • Commercial logging operations or purchase of logging equipment for use in primary tropical moist forest;
    • Trade or productions in pesticides/herbicides subject to international phase outs or bans;
    • Production or trade in ozone depleting substances subject to international phase out;
    • Production or trade in wood or other forestry products from unmanaged forests;
    • Drift net fishing in the marine environment using nets in excess of 2.5km. in length Production or activities involving harmful or exploitative forms of forced labour/harmful child labour;
  • Energy extraction;
  • Any services utilised for fraud or money laundering. Monevium will report any suspicious activity to the relevant law enforcement agency. You are prohibited from using Your Payment Account to abuse, exploit or circumvent the usage restrictions imposed by a merchant on the services it provides.