What you can’t sell on WaContacts
The marketplace is for real businesses selling real things. These are never allowed.
Weapons
Guns, ammunition, explosives and anything made to hurt people.
Drugs and prescription medicines
Illegal drugs, codeine, tramadol, and medicines that need a doctor’s prescription.
Banned skin products
Creams and soaps with mercury or hydroquinone.
Fakes and copies
“First copy”, replicas, and anything sold under another brand’s name.
Accounts and identities
Bank cards, BVN, NIN, SIM cards in someone else’s name, hacked accounts.
Adult content
Sexual services, pornography and escort services.
Cure claims
Products that claim to cure illnesses like diabetes, HIV or infertility.
Scams
Prices too good to be true, or taking money for goods you won’t send.
How we check
- Every listing is read before it reaches the marketplace. Most pass within minutes.
- If we’re not sure, a person looks before it goes up.
- A listing that breaks these rules comes off the marketplace. It stays on the seller’s own page.
- Two broken rules and the seller comes off the marketplace until we review.
See something wrong?
Tap Report on any listing. When three people report one, it comes off the marketplace until we look.
