# WEB-140 — No law-evasion or questionable-legality products in the catalog

> The brand website must not host or promote law-evasion and protection-bypass products, or products of questionable legality.

- **Rule ID:** WEB-140
- **Layer:** Website (`WEBSITE`)
- **Checks:** `crawled website content`
- **Severity:** MEDIUM — Usually survives review, but lowers your trust score or invites manual review.
- **When it bites:** Gates approval — get this wrong and registration is refused
- **How it is detected:** AI judgement over the crawled website or policy page
- **Fix type:** Fix the website — no form edit clears it
- **Required by:** AT&T
- **Applies:** Applies to every 10DLC registration.
- **Canonical URL:** https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/website/web-140/

## Why this rule exists

AT&T names a specific old list — radar detectors, descramblers, copyright-bypass tools, miracle cures, witchcraft and good-luck merchandise — and it survives because those categories still attract the complaint patterns that put them there. A general retailer meets it through a single novelty line nobody thought about, which is why the fix is almost always the catalog rather than the business.

## How to fix it

Remove the named product lines from the catalog, or drop the effectiveness claim where the item is a novelty. Done when nothing in the catalog is sold as a way around a law or as a remedy it cannot deliver.

## Example of a compliant value

```text
List a "lucky bean charm — novelty gift, no claims made" rather than "brings prosperity within 7 days".
```

## Notes

Severity divergence inside the source: the questionable-legality clause is graded HIGH and the descrambler and radar-detector clauses MEDIUM. Graded MEDIUM overall because the enforcement in practice attaches to the product line rather than the brand, and the fix is a catalog edit.