Le Bon Coin: new policy?

Question for our members from France. In the past I bought something from LBC a couple of times. Just some messaging with the seller. Pay by bank or PP. Receive the goods.

Now it is basically impossible to buy something as foreigner because you need to have a French mobile number.

So today I was in the process of buying 2 things. I told the seller give me your IBAN and I will pay. Now my account is blocked.

Anyone know why these - kind of - hysterical rules have been introduced?

Hi there
I don’t have the answer. I actually use LeBonCoin mainly for local deal and face to face transaction. Simply because I got very close to get scammed several times before so it may be that they are trying to act on this… with the wrong policy/means. This would not surprise me.
You can pm me : if I can help I will.

I’m sure it is to fight scams, there seems to have been a band of scammers operating out of London who would contact people saying they were travelling, could one ship a watch to London to their cousin or brother.That happened to me as I tried to resell one of my first Hermes ebay purchases.
At the time I was inexperienced with watches but I did detect the scam when someone pressed me to ship it to London when I had specifically said F2F only. The tone reminded me of those so called Nigerian scams.