Prohibited list

By category

Pick your service's category to see the rules that concern it.

Prohibited services 17

These services may not be offered or advertised in any form.

• Forging documents

  Certificates, official documents, stamps, medical reports or bank statements, or altering them or helping to.

• Visa and residency trading

  Selling visas or residencies, or transferring sponsorships outside official procedures.

• Hiring out workers and cover-ups

  Recruiting, hiring out or transferring domestic workers without a licence, or expats trading for themselves or under a citizen's name.

• Hacking and account unlocking

  Breaking into accounts or devices, unlocking without proof of ownership, spying and tracking people.

• Sorcery and fortune telling

  Magic and its removal, witchcraft, fortune and cup reading, horoscopes and claims of curing illness with them.

• Academic cheating

  Leaking exams, doing assignments or exams, and writing research or theses on students' behalf.

• Collection by threats

  Collecting debts or claims through threats, public shaming or blackmail.

• Fake followers and reviews

  Selling followers, likes, reviews, fake accounts or stolen accounts.

• SIM cards and numbers

  Selling SIM cards or registering them in other people's names, and selling registered numbers.

• Human and organ trafficking

  Any exploitation of people, or selling human organs or remains.

• Sexual and escort services

  Prostitution, escorting and sexual chats, and home massage or massage outside a licensed venue.

• Fundraising and begging

  Collecting donations or zakat without a licence, and begging in any form.

• Unlicensed money services

  Loans, financing, currency exchange, money transfers, investment management and pyramid schemes without a licence.

• Gambling and betting

  Betting, lotteries, casinos and gambling apps.

• Piracy

  Pirated streaming subscriptions, unlicensed software or game activation, and copying protected content.

• Selling personal data

  Selling lists of numbers or personal data, or collecting them without consent.

• Extremism and hate

  Terrorist or extremist content, insulting religions, and inciting violence, hatred or discrimination.

Prohibited items 15

No service may sell, deliver or promote these.

• Weapons and ammunition

  Firearms, blades, ammunition, stun guns, pepper sprays and their parts.

• Explosives and fireworks

  Explosive materials, fireworks and firecrackers.

• Drugs

  Narcotics, psychotropic substances and paraphernalia.

• Medicines and supplements

  Prescription and over-the-counter medicines, slimming drugs, supplements and medical products.

• Alcohol

  Selling, delivering or serving it at events.

• Tobacco and vapes

  E-cigarettes and liquids, tobacco and shisha products, and delivering them.

• Counterfeit and stolen goods

  Fakes and replicas of brands, and any stolen goods.

• Protected wildlife

  Endangered or predatory animals and birds, ivory and protected animal skins.

• Antiquities

  Archaeological artefacts, historic manuscripts and ancient coins taken from heritage sites.

• Spy and jamming devices

  Bugs, hidden cameras, jammers, laser devices and unauthorised satellite internet equipment.

• Crypto and forex

  Selling or mining cryptocurrencies, trading and financial tips, and guaranteed-profit offers.

• Adult material

  Pornography, sex products and anything offensive to public decency.

• IDs and bank cards

  IDs, passports, licences and official documents, and bank cards or their data.

• Military uniforms

  Military, security and government uniforms, badges and ranks.

• Hazardous materials

  Dangerous, toxic or flammable chemicals.

Not accepted for now 8

These services need a licence we cannot verify yet, so we do not accept them even from licensed providers. We will open them once licence checks are in place.

• Medical and nursing care

  Examinations, treatment, nursing, home care and cupping.

• Cosmetic injections

  Botox, fillers, cosmetic injections and medical peels.

• Pharmacy

  Dispensing, selling and delivering medicines.

• Real estate brokerage

  Marketing and brokering property sales and rentals.

• Recruitment

  Recruitment offices, staffing companies and labour supply.

• Security services

  Private guarding and protecting premises or people.

• Legal and engineering work

  Legal representation, notarisation and certifying engineering plans.

• Nurseries and childcare

  Nurseries, kindergartens and group childcare.

Licensed only 9

Allowed only for providers holding the licence their country requires. We recommend adding your licence number to the description.

• Physiotherapy and therapeutic massage

  By licensed specialists or licensed centres.

• Passenger transport

  Paid rides, errands in private cars and school transport.

• Private tutoring

  Where the country requires a permit, as in the UAE and Qatar, and with limits on expat teachers in Kuwait.

• Drones

  Aerial photography and drone flights with a civil aviation permit.

• Influencer advertising

  Paid advertising through social accounts, such as the Mawthooq licence in Saudi Arabia.

• Pet breeding and sales

  Breeding and selling pets under veterinary authority rules.

• Pest control

  Spraying and fumigation by a company licensed by the municipality, with approved pesticides.

• Food and catering

  Cooking, buffets and food for events, with a food permit or health certificate where the country requires one.

• Gas installations

  Installing and maintaining central gas lines and tanks, by a contractor approved by civil defence or the competent authority.

If a rule is broken

1. Automatic checks reject the service before it is published, or send it to review.
2. A published service that breaks the rules is removed without prior notice.
3. Accounts are suspended for repeated or serious violations.
4. We cooperate with the authorities when we suspect a crime.

If your service is not on this list and is legal in your country, you can publish it. If you are not sure, contact us before publishing.