And they still do it on LocalBitcoins, with their built in escrow system and thousands of trusted traders in various locations - that's the normal place for people to transfer with cash.  It's just extremely unusual for us to see a newbie account on the forum asking for a crazy amount of BTC without doing the most basic research about what people tend to do when trading peer-to-peer.

Not to mention that the norm would be to go somewhere like Bitstamp, which would give you a fee of somewhere around 0.1% when you're dealing with that much money and doesn't stop people actually using their Bitcoin in a decentralised way.

It seems very suspicious that someone would join the forum in this way and the first thing they do is ask for money.