The real question is : Why were you trying to buy LocalBitcoinsAccount ? You do know right buying such accounts is highly discouraged and leads to activities like scam.Were you buying the account for the same purpose ? IMHO,you are equally responsible for the same unless you had different intentions of buying the account.
I want to sell some amount of crypto. And very difficult to search traders without reputation.
Selling/buying LB accounts is against their TOS and will get the account banned.