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### Prohibited Industries List

 tomato pay does not want to support and be associated with illegal, grey-market and/or high-risk industries. As such, we don’t supprot any of the below industries:

- All adult entertainment, sexually oriented or pornographic activity, products, services.
- Selling products or services promising future guaranteed results in general
- Bidding or Fee auctions aka Penny Auctions
- Business practices promoting racism, violence, abuse, discrimination or other immoral activity
- Chain letters
- Charities Collection agencies or firms involved in the collection of uncollectible debt
- Counterfeit or replica goods
- Credit Card protection or identity theft services
- Credit Card repair or restoration
- Cross selling products to facilitate the sharing of cardholder data to or from third parties.
- Companion or Escort services
- Deceptive marketing in any form and unfair business practices
- Satellite and cable TV descramblers, other descrambler products including mod chips
- Discount buying clubs
- Drugs or Drug Paraphernalia of any form
- Embassies, foreign consulates, or other foreign governments
- Essay mills/paper mills
- Fake, novelty, or counterfeit government ID’s, visas, licenses, fake references or other products that foster deception
- Firearm, ammunition, gun parts or other weapon sales
- File sharing services/cyberlockers
- Foreclosure protection or guarantees
- Fortune Tellers
- Funds/loss recovery
- Gambling, gambling advice, sports forecasting, odds making
- Government grants
- Jammers, devices that are designed to block, jam or interfere with cellular and personal communication devices/signals
- Illegal products/activities of any kind
- Intellectual property rights violators
- Lifetime subscriptions for any product or service
- Lottery clubs, cash competitions
- Mail order spouse and international matchmaking services
- Medical discount benefits packages (including medical cards)
- Services offering ransom like or extortion like services such as mugshot removal services
- Pawn shops
- Prescription drugs, Pharmaceuticals or medicinals
- Ponzi, multi-level marketing, affiliate network marketing or pyramid schemes
- Products or services associated with get-rich-quick schemes or high yield investment programs
- Negative renewal option following a free or low cost purchase, including pay for shipping only offers which relate to a free trail or recurring charges that do not contain a clear billing practice, make it difficult to cancel, or do not provider reminders before billing.
- Nutraceuticals
- Payday loans
- Unlicensed companies that require license in the jurisdiction(s) in which they operate
- Shippers or forwarders
- Social Media click farms
- Items or services that promote illegal activity
- Telemarketing
- Ticket brokers
- Timeshare services, resellers or advertising services
- Travel Clubs
- Web hosting companies with negative renewals offering free or low cost trials, pay for shipping only offers, pre checked boxes with merchants terms and conditions and multi-level marketing.
- Any other activity that may adversely impact our reputation

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