Right, so about a month ago (22nd October) I made a purchase on SR from the vendor XTandMD. However it didn't arrive so I went to message him to organize a reship however on his profile he had "away from office until next Friday due to family issues", so I decided to wait until he was back before messaging, the day he was due to come back the FBI closed the site.
I've recently made an Agora account and found he's vending on there (and had been for a while) so I sent him a message and he replied saying he could not decrypt the message and to send it again using a different PGP key than what he had on SR. I added the key and found out it was created very recently (22nd October) so this aroused my suspicions. I checked his recent reviews and he hasn't received a single one since his new PGP key was created so I feel like it might be LE posing as a vendor and since they didn't know the password to his old PGP key created a new one.
XTandMD was my favorite vendor on SR, sold for cheap and had great stealth so I'm a bit upset if he's been seized. Is there anyway of confirming a vendor other than sending a message to their usual PGP key and if it's them and they're still using it (which they're clearly not) they'd be able to decrypt it?
Do you think he's been seized or am I just getting paranoid?
Ask the vendor why he has a different key then he did on sr