If I understood, the 1000 items were worth about $40k, and he got $260k from diverting shipping fees to his account. Still not very clever. I can see a cooler

If I understood, the 1000 items were worth about $40k, and he got $260k from diverting shipping fees to his account. Still not very clever. I can see a cooler version of this, for example with Amazon where they try and steal shipping fees from you at checkout by defaulting to paid shipping when free shipping is available. A malfeasor could, whenever a customer is successfully scammed by amazon, just divert the money to themselves and make is seem like the customer actually clicked on the free shipping option.