Any member that has sold something in a transaction with another will get their Email address,(hence why some

scammers don't have items for sale as they are only after that Email address).

When the Chinese scammers where rife there was over 150 of them in one week with over a 1000 listings between

them.

Others had choice listings and some of them sold over 100 of each of those.

All up there would have being 1000's of members affected,

Once they have that Email address the phishing attempts can began to try and get their eBay and Paypal

passwords,(most times they leave it a few weeks or try and coincide it with possible Paypal Emails.