Understand recipient restrictions

Banking regulations and regional restrictions prohibit Tremendous from sending rewards to certain individuals. Recipients may not be able to receive Tremendous rewards if they use certain email domains or are located in a prohibited regions. Additionally, SMS rewards cannot be delivered to certain regions.

Temporary email domains

"Know Your Customer" (KYC) obligations require Tremendous to collect information on recipients, like email addresses. These requirements come from our banking partner and are designed to prevent financial system abuse.

There are services that allow individuals to create a disposable email address without a registration process. Because of the anonymity these services allow, sending a reward to a temporary email is prohibited.

View prohibited temporary email domains.

Prohibited countries

Banking regulations prevent us from sending rewards to recipients in the following countries:

  • Afghanistan
  • Belarus
  • Cuba
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Myanmar
  • North Korea
  • Russia
  • Syria
  • Ukraine
  • Venezuela
  • Yemen

Recipients located in these countries cannot redeem Tremendous rewards. Rewards cannot be ordered to top-level email domains owned by prohibited countries. View prohibited top-level email domains.

SMS carrier restrictions

Tremendous is able to deliver SMS rewards to most recipients worldwide, but certain countries are restricted in the content that can be delivered. In addition to the prohibited countries listed above, local regulations prevent us from delivering SMS messages to the following countries:

Armenia Kyrgyzstan Senegal
Azerbaijan Laos Sierra Leone
Bangladesh Lebanon Singapore
Belize Liberia Solomon Islands
Bhutan Libya Somalia
Burundi Madagascar Sri Lanka
Cambodia Malawi Sudan
Central African Republic Malaysia Taiwan
Chad Mali Tajikistan
China Marshall Islands Tanzania
Comoros Micronesia Thailand
Democratic Republic of the Congo Moldova Timor-Leste
Denmark Morocco Togo
Egypt Mozambique Tonga
Ethiopia Niger Tunisia
Georgia Nigeria Turkmenistan
Ghana Norway Tuvalu
Guinea Pakistan United Arab Emirates
Haiti Palau Uzbekistan
Hong Kong Palestine Vanuatu
Indonesia Papua New Guinea Vietnam
Ivory Coast Philippines Zambia
Jordan Qatar Zimbabwe
Kenya Romania  
Kiribati Saudi Arabia  

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