OTC Trading Security Guide: How to Screen and Find Reliable and Safe Merchants:

1. First, check the merchant's level. For large withdrawals, prioritize large merchants; for small withdrawals, prioritize trusted merchants. The platform selects outstanding merchants based on their historical trading performance after strict audits, allowing only the best to join trusted and large merchant categories, and they must inject more margin into the platform, ensuring greater safety for user withdrawals.

2. Look at the merchant's account registration time. If the account was created recently, try to avoid trading with new merchants. Merchants without a history of experience have insufficient risk control and safety experience. Prioritize merchants that have been in operation for over three years, as non-compliant merchants without adequate safety awareness would not have survived to this day—they would have either been eliminated or ended up in prison.

3. Check the types of transactions the merchant offers. If the platform only supports fiat transactions without spot or contract trading, it indicates an abnormal merchant, and there is a likelihood of renting or lending merchant accounts.

4. Look at the number of transactions. If they only buy on the platform and have little to no selling activity, and if they withdraw all purchased coins from the platform, they may be suspected of buying on behalf of others or selling at high prices to clients engaged in off-market projects, such as gambling platforms or Ponzi schemes. These are the highest risk merchants, with a high probability of financial issues; once something goes wrong, they are likely to face legal consequences.