THIS ARTICLE UPDATED 22-DECEMBER-2025
Due to the changing nature of international money transfers and in the interest of easing the burden on our customers, we are now blocking donations from certain “Sanctioned” countries automatically.
The Sanctions lists prevent most or all financial transactions with the following countries:
| Country Name | Date Added to List |
|---|---|
| Belarus | 23-Dec-2020 |
| Brazil * | 23-Dec-2020 |
| Central African Republic | 02-Jun-2022 |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) | 23-Dec-2020 |
| Cuba | 23-Dec-2020 |
| Ethiopia | 02-Jun-2022 |
| Indonesia** | 03-May-2023 |
| Iran | 23-Dec-2020 |
| Iraq | 02-Jun-2022 |
| North Korea (DPRK) | 23-Dec-2020 |
| Lebanon | 02-Jun-2022 |
| Libya | 23-Dec-2020 |
| Myanmar (aka Burma) | 23-Dec-2020 |
| Nicaragua | 23-Dec-2020 |
| Nigeria** | 02-Jun-2022 |
| Russian Federation | 23-Dec-2020 |
| Somalia | 02-Jun-2022 |
| South Sudan | 23-Dec-2020 |
| Sudan | 23-Dec-2020 |
| Syria | 23-Dec-2020 |
| Ukraine | 15-Jul-2025 |
| Venezuela | 22-Dec-2025 |
| Yemen | 02-Jun-2022 |
| Zimbabwe | 23-Dec-2020 |
We will no longer allow transactions that originate in any of these countries.
* NOTE - Brazil is not on the OFAC sanctions lists, however, historically, the vast majority of attempted transactions from Brazil have been fraudulent.
**NOTE - Nigeria and Indonesia are not on the OFAC sanctions lists, However, these countries have a high-percentage of fraud attempts. Therefore, we have decided to block all attempted transactions from those countries.
How our blocked country list works with regard to OFAC SDN lists:
- Our customer organizations are required to abide by all OFAC restrictions on transactions with international entities. These include many types of entities: countries, groups, corporations and individuals are on OFAC SDN lists. It is the responsibility of each organization to ensure that they do not accept donations from OFAC sanctioned entities.
- Click & Pledge blocks certain countries to ease the burden of our customers by eliminating the vast majority of sanctioned entities that can attempt donations through our system.
- Some of the countries that are in our sanction list are countries that OFAC has deemed to be completely off limits for at least financial transactions. This means that NO person, company or other entity that is inside these countries may conduct financial transactions with entities within the United States regardless of whether they are a citizen of a non-sanctioned country.
- Other countries in the list have restrictions on all persons within that country who are involved with certain activities: mostly terrorism. These countries have a high percentage of people who meet the criteria. Since we cannot determine any criteria of the donor than their location, we block the country.
- Three countries do not have significant OFAC restrictions. However, the percentage of attempted transactions we have recorded from those countries that are attempted fraudulent transactions is extremely high (over 90%).
- Other countries may be sanctioned for import or export of specific items, those countries are not blocked.
- Countries sanctioned by the UN, the EU or any other government financial regulatory body, but not the US are still allowed. If your organization is required to abide by these sanctions, please contact support for help on blocking additional countries.
- The blocks are primarily based on the location of the client device’s IP address. We cannot prevent potential donors from circumventing this control by using a private VPN. We do block donors using any commercial VPN from accessing Connect pages. Donation pages using FAAS do not block VPN services, but do block sanctioned countries as long as the donation page passes us the client device’s IP address.
- THE LIST OF COUNTRIES THAT CLICK & PLEDGE BLOCKS CAN CHANGE AT ANY TIME
Please refer to the OFAC website for more information on financial sanctions: https://ofac.treasury.gov/