A buddy of mine used a localbitcoins vendor (with 500+ trusted partners and over 150btc trade volume) who had a message at the end of their listing info saying the buyer promises the bitcoins purchased will not be used for "illegal purposes". This was a couple weeks ago, the transaction went through just fine but now the localbitcoins vendor has messaged my friend asking for his phone number.
What gives?
edit: the localbitcoins vendor is the one who is asking for my friends phone number, sorry for if i worded it incorrectly. the vendor did not send a msg with a phone number to call but asked for a phone number
Seriously, there is no plausible situation where calling that number is beneficial to you or your friend. Ignore that shit.