The current C2C channels are being gradually tightened, not with a blanket ban, but through rules and risk control that gradually compress the space until many realize they have nowhere to go.

In the end, the only viable solution left is to establish long-term cooperative relationships with fixed and reliable C2C merchants.

The method is simple: add each other as friends on WX/ZFB with the same name, don’t rush to trade, let it settle for a day or two, chat normally, and leave a real communication record before proceeding with subsequent payments. This step is precisely what many people overlook as crucial.

So the question arises, what kind of merchants are worth long-term cooperation?

There is only one answer: merchants with strict risk control.

If the merchant you find hardly does any verification, directly asks you to pay, and releases the currency immediately, this seemingly "quick" process often only indicates a matter of time—he will eventually receive problematic funds. Once something goes wrong, no one in the chain can escape.

So, don’t rush to cancel orders or blacklist the other party just because the process is complicated and there are many verifications, thinking "he missed out on me as a customer."

On the contrary, for truly compliant and cautious merchants, such users are not scarce; they might even hope you leave early. What you really should do is to firmly hold onto such merchants for long-term cooperation.

Many people don’t understand and feel:

"I’m about to go bankrupt, where do I have the time to cooperate with this?"

"Why should I do more when others don’t have to?"

These thoughts, at their core, are just using emotions to fight against risk. Safety is often only valued when the words "judicial freeze" truly land on one's own account, but by then it is already too late.

This industry has never lacked smart people; the most dangerous are those who think they are clever.

The ones that run the fastest are often also the ones that get into trouble the quickest.

Remember this: risk control and safety are not options, but the bottom line; they are not costs, but survival.