- Illegal drugs, substances designed to mimic illegal drugs, and equipment designed for making or using drugs
- Fake references or ID-providing services
- Telecommunications manipulation equipment including jamming devices
- Any business or organization that a. engages in, encourages, promotes or celebrates unlawful violence or physical harm to persons or property, or b. engages in, encourages, promotes or celebrates unlawful violence toward any group based on race, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, or any other immutable characteristic
- Any other products or services that are in violation of law in the jurisdictions where your business is located or targeted to
- Sales or distribution of music, movies, software, or any other licensed materials without appropriate authorization
- Counterfeit goods; illegally imported or exported products
- Unauthorized sale of brand name or designer products or services
- Any other products or services that directly infringe or facilitate infringement upon the trademark, patent, copyright, trade secrets, proprietary or privacy rights of any third party
- Products and services that are unfair, predatory, or deceptive
- ‘Get rich quick’ schemes including: investment opportunities or other services that promise high rewards to mislead consumers; schemes that claim to offer high rewards for very little effort or up front work; sites that promise fast and easy money; businesses that make outrageous claims, use deceptive testimonials, use high-pressure upselling, and/or use fake testimonials; (with or without a written contract) offering unrealistic incentives/rewards as an inducement to purchase products or services but do not respond to any queries after the purchase
- No value added services including sale or resale of a service without added benefit to the buyer and resale of government offerings without authorization or added value
- Predatory Sales of online traffic or engagement
- Negative response marketing and telemarketing
- Predatory mortgage consulting, lending, credit repair and counseling services
- Predatory investment opportunities with no or low money down
- Remote technical support; mugshot publication or pay-to-remove sites; essay mills; chain letters; door-to-door sales
- Any other businesses that Delos considers unfair, deceptive, or predatory towards consumers
- Pornography and other mature audience content (including literature, imagery and other media) depicting nudity or explicit sexual acts
- Adult services including prostitution, escorts, pay-per view, sexual massages, and adult live chat features
- Adult video stores
- Gentleman's clubs, topless bars, and strip clubs
- Online dating services
- Law firms collecting fees for purposes other than legal service fee payments increasing AML risk
- Bankruptcy attorneys
- Bail bonds
- Guns, gunpowders, ammunitions, weapons, fireworks and other explosives
- Peptides, research chemicals, and other toxic, flammable and radioactive materials
- Direct Sales of Precious metals (affiliated businesses may be looked at in a case-by-case basis)
- Including games of chance including gambling, internet gambling, sweepstakes and contests, fantasy sports leagues with for a monetary or material prize
- Including sports forecasting or odds making with a monetary or material prize
- Lotteries (National lotteries can be considered on a case-by-case basis)
- Bidding fee auctions
- Other cash intensive businesses
- Cannabis products
- Cannabis dispensaries and related businesses
- Production or trade in any product or activity deemed illegal under host country laws or regulations or international conventions and agreements, including without limitation host country requirements related to environmental, health and safety, and labor aspects;
- Production or trade in weapons and munitions;
- Production, trade, storage, or transport of significant volumes of hazardous chemicals, or commercial scale usage of hazardous chemicals;
- Trade in wildlife or wildlife products regulated under CITES; 5
- Commercial logging operations or purchase of logging equipment for use in the primary tropical moist forest;
- Production or trade in pharmaceuticals subject to international phase-outs or bans;
- Production or trade in pesticides/herbicides subject to international phase-outs or bans;
- Drift net fishing in the marine environment using nets in excess of 2
- Production or activities involving harmful or exploitative forms of forced labor /harmful child labor;
- Production or trade in ozone-depleting substances subject to international phase-out;
- Production or trade in wood or other forestry products from unmanaged forests;
- Money exchange dealings;
- Involvement in any business relating to prostitution;
- Quarries, mining, or processing of metal ores or coal;
- Giving or receiving gifts that could be interpreted as intending to influence business decisions;
- Illegal use of confidential material and non-public information;
- Trading of animal fur, bones, and ivory;
- Diamond trading without Kimberley Certification;
- Creation of indecent and obscene material including child pornography;
- Trading of cultural objects like sculptures, statues, antiques, collectors’ items, and archaeological pieces especially those originating from the Republic of Iraq;
- Trading of fireworks, explosives, and weapons;
- Drug trafficking including chemicals used to manufacture a synthetic drug or drugs;
- Trading in derivatives/options/hedging;
- Non-licensed offline gambling/betting/casino/horse racing/bingo/sports betting;
- Non-licensed online casino/online poker/online gambling/online betting/prize draws/gift cards/any form of lottery/scratch cards;
- Trading of bearer shares and bonds;
- The dealing of jewels, gems, precious metals;
- Non-licensed forex/binary options
