Do you know what amount they consider to be "significant in the past 12 months"?
I verified my account ages ago so it doesn't affect me directly but I'm just curious.
No idea, but I didn't even trade that much over the past 12 months. I believe that my trading volume fell under the 2-5 BTC category, and I'd say that half of it incurred while BTC was still relatively cheap back in the first half of 2017.
I don't think that's that significant by any means, but I doubt that LBC wanted to do this either. Obviously doesn't make sense for them to do this voluntarily, and there had to be some sort of regulatory pressure be put on them.
This does not like true information, I have been using the localbitcoins more than 3 years but still there is nothing has been asked from the localbitcoins site. If the trader have policy to trade along with ID verification means you need to go ahead with the Id card verification which is internationally accepted. That is how LBC policy works so far mate.
If the furnished information is true. First share the policy image which shows the details you mentioned.
Search on the web. I'm sure you'll find a lot more cases. I wouldn't lie to the whole community for the sake of discrediting LBC, which was one of my favorite platforms to trade on.
Anyways, after a few days this suspension doesn't seem to be going. Time to move on.