Prohibited Activities

The processing of the following activities, products and services is prohibited in accordance with Mercado Pago's Policies or by applicable law:

  1. Businesses that promote violence or discrimination of any kind.
  2. Any type of activity or transaction that may be considered fraudulent or illegal or suspected of being fraudulent or illegal.
  3. Any type of transaction that violates local, national or international laws.
  4. Financing of weapons of mass destruction.
  5. Paedophilia or promotion of sex involving minors, minors nudity, minors pornography, real or simulated.
  6. Illegally taken films or photographs of minors under the age of 18 or without the authorisation of the minor's legal representative.
  7. Piracy.
  8. Pornography.
  9. Misleading commercial practices.
  10. Terrorism and money laundering.
  11. All establishments/persons found at www.treasury.gov./offices/enforcement/ofac/sanctions/terrorism.html.
  12. Traffic of human beings, animals or weapons.
  13. Sale of weapons.
  14. Sale of drugs (including designer drugs).
  15. Drug paraphernalia.
  16. Sale of counterfeit goods.
  17. Illegal sale of medicines or food supplements.
    Sale or infringement of intellectual property rights.
    Zoophilia.

 

Entertainment 

  1. Fortune tellers, psychics.
  2. Adult entertainment (including, adult telephone chat, nudist or semi-nudist bars, pornographic oriented bookshops, massage agencies, dating services, modelling agencies, bestiality).
  3. Esotericism and horoscopes.
  4. Establishments for sexual encounters.
  5. Gambling, casinos, gaming and betting shops (whether conducted online or in person); including Casino Chips, Bookmakers, State and
  6. National Government Lotteries, Bingo, Internet Gambling and Casino websites.
  7. Escort services.

 

Financial Services

  1. Bankruptcy lawyers.
  2. Cash advances or loans.
  3. Collection agencies, debt refinancing.
  4. Credit bureau, consumer credit bureau.
  5. Commercial telephone service providers who receive calls from cardholders.
  6. Telemarketing merchants who take calls from cardholders.
  7. Factoring companies, liquidators, bailiffs, bail bond agents, or credit payment, bankruptcy services; credit recovery services.
  8. Debt settlement companies; repayment of overdue debt; third party companies that process payments from debt settlement companies or collection companies.
  9. Bank money orders.
  10. Primary Money Services Business.
  11. Virtual currency trading.
  12. Futures, derivatives or financial trading.
  13. Payment orders, non-financial institutions (non-wireless), currency exchanges (including cross-border currency), exchange bureau, check cashing/guarantee, acquisition of travellers' checks, acquisition of shares or stocks, securities, options, and any other investments, including contributions to investment funds; investment in trust funds.
  14. Bail payments.
  15. Lenders, including payroll lenders and motor title lenders.
  16. Production or distribution of cryptocurrencies.
  17. Payment Service Providers or Payment Facilitators.
  18. Credit restructuring or loan modifications.
  19. Credit restoration.
  20. Forward-looking services.
  21. Financial advisory services.
  22.  In-person electronic transfers.

 

Travel and transportation

  1. Airlines and air transport companies (including charter airlines).
  2. Car Rental Agencies.
  3. Travel Agencies.
  4. Accommodation: hotels, motels, resorts (including ‘branded’ central reservation services).
  5. Steamships and Cruise Lines (including on-board cruise shops).
  6. Discount travel clubs.
  7. Direct Marketing - related to travel management services.
  8. Payment for sexual, prostitution or related services, no matter how are provided (including potentially sexual services).
    Sale of timeshare units.
     

Sale of products or services

  1. Contraband cigarettes.
  2. Electronic cigarettes.
  3. Wholesale clubs, pyramid or multi-level sales.
  4. Evasion devices / modification of game consoles.
  5. Ephedrine, Ephedra or any extract thereof.
  6. Non-face-to-face pharmacies.
  7. HCG weight loss diet.
  8. Direct marketing such as infomercial payees, outbound telemarketing.
  9. Indirect acceptance models.
  10. Operation from a P.O. Box number or accepting orders by answering machine.
  11. Non-face-to-face tobacco products.
  12. Crime reconstruction.
  13. Protective services.
  14. Penny auctions.
  15. Telemedicine.
  16. For-profit adoption agencies.
  17. Donations, including donations to political parties.

Was the information helpful?