# Illicit resource

A merchant cannot resolve the invoice that is assigned with the `status_context` of `illicit_resource` themselves.

Instead, Cryptopay Transaction Monitoring team will review this transaction and contact the merchant to make a decision on whether Cryptopay will be able to process this payment and add the funds to the merchant account balance or we will have to send the funds back to a sender.

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We highly recommend making your Fraud Prevention and Transaction Monitoring teams aware of all such payments so that they contact us at <risk@cryptopay.me>.
{% endhint %}

Refer to the [Risks](/guides/risks.md) section to get more details on what High-Risk transactions are and why we take it very seriously.


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