Prohibited Vigs

You can put a price on almost anything. You cannot put a price on hurting people, breaking the law, deceiving others or putting a Runner in danger. If a Vig would make a reasonable person uncomfortable to run, it does not belong on Vig.

These categories apply to the whole Vig: the public description, the instructions and the private details a Runner only sees after approval. Hiding the real ask in private details is itself a violation.

• Violence

  violence

  Asking anyone to hurt, threaten or physically intimidate a person or animal.

  Example: "$300 to rough up the guy who keyed my car."

• Harassment

  harassment

  Targeting a person with unwanted contact, abuse, prank calls or public shaming.

  Example: "$20 to prank-call my ex every night this week."

• Stalking

  stalking

  Following, tracking, surveilling or locating a private individual without their consent.

  Example: "$150 to find out where my former roommate lives now."

• Theft

  theft

  Stealing, shoplifting, burglary or taking anything that isn't the Poster's to take.

  Example: "$50 to grab the package off my neighbor's porch."

• Illegal activity

  illegal_activity

  Anything that breaks the law where it would be carried out, including vandalism and black-market purchases.

  Example: "$40 to spray-paint the wall behind the school."

• Sexual services

  sexual_services

  Sexual acts, sexual content, escorting or adult content of any kind.

  Example: "$200 for photos, you know the kind."

• Drugs

  drugs

  Buying, selling, delivering or picking up controlled substances, including where they may be legal locally.

  Example: "$60 to pick up edibles and drop them at my place."

• Weapons

  weapons

  Acquiring, transporting or transferring firearms, ammunition, explosives or weapon parts.

  Example: "$500 to buy a pistol for me at the gun show."

• Identity theft

  identity_theft

  Collecting, using or sharing someone else's identifiers, credentials or accounts.

  Example: "$100 to find my landlord's social security number."

• Fraud

  fraud

  Any scheme to deceive a business or person for money: fake receipts, false claims, chargebacks, counterfeit goods, laundering.

  Example: "$75 to file a claim saying the package never arrived."

• Privacy invasion

  privacy_invasion

  Recording, photographing or tracing people without their knowledge or consent, including license plates, phone numbers and addresses.

  Example: "$90 to film inside the gym locker room without anyone noticing."

• Impersonation

  impersonation

  Pretending to be a specific person, an official, an employee or an organization.

  Example: "$120 to pose as a building inspector and get into the unit."

• Deceptive reviews

  deceptive_reviews

  Buying fake ratings, reviews, testimonials or votes for any product, business or person, positive or negative.

  Example: "$10 each for twenty five-star reviews on our Google listing."

• Platform manipulation

  platform_manipulation

  Creating bot or fake accounts, mass-reporting, vote brigading, or gaming Vig's own ratings and success rates.

  Example: "$5 per account to create 50 accounts and follow my page."

• Dangerous activity

  dangerous_activity

  Trespassing on infrastructure, climbing structures, entering restricted areas, or any stunt likely to injure the Runner or others.

  Example: "$250 to climb the crane downtown and get a photo from the top."

Vig staff may also decline any Vig that does not fit a category above but that staff judge unsafe, deceptive or harmful. That decision is recorded under the category other.

Every Vig goes through moderation between funding and going live. The flow is:

1. Automated rules. A deterministic ruleset scans the title, description, instructions and private details against patterns for each category above. Unusually high Payoffs are also routed for a human look regardless of content.
2. Decision. Clear matches for the most serious categories are rejected outright and the Poster’s funds are returned. Ambiguous matches are flagged: the Vig is held, the Poster is told it is being reviewed, and it does not appear in the feed.
3. Human review. A Vig staff reviewer reads the full Vig and the automated findings, then approves it (it goes live) or rejects it (it is removed and funds are returned).
4. After publication. Vig staff can pause, cancel or remove a live Vig at any time if new information comes in, including a report from a Runner.

Automated moderation will be strengthened with a model-based classifier over time. The rules layer always runs first, so a Vig never skips the deterministic checks.

• A rejected or removed Vig has its unused funds returned to the Poster, including the $2 fee when nothing was completed.
• Posting a prohibited Vig may result in the account being flagged, suspended or banned depending on severity and history. A single serious violation can be a permanent ban.
• A Runner who knowingly completes a prohibited Vig is subject to the same consequences. Report it instead.
• Vig cooperates with law enforcement where required, and retains moderation records for that purpose.

If you see a Vig that belongs on this list, or a Runner or Poster behaving in a way that does, email report@vig.link (placeholder) with the Vig code (the short code in the link, for example 7K29D) and what you saw. Reports from Runners who were approved for a Vig and then saw problematic private details are especially useful. An in-app report button is planned.

Reporting in good faith will never count against you. False reports intended to remove a competitor’s Vig count as platform manipulation.

See the Terms of Service for account status rules and the Disputes policy for what happens when a Vig is cancelled by Vig Review.