The point of my post 10 is E bay can do little to defend against people that fall for scam e mails.

These e mails tell the user to click on a link in an e mail that appears to be from e bay but is really the scammers site. Once the user enters their user name and password, the scammers use this info to access the account. I'm betting the scammers change the password to prevent the user from quickly regaining control of their account.

Scammers probably target low traffic accounts because the users are likely to be less experienced and a high traffic account would notice an issue sooner.