as mentioned in some other replies, probably to legitimize it. As the author mentioned, they allowed the item to be shipped to a new address. If I'm not mistake

as mentioned in some other replies, probably to legitimize it. As the author mentioned, they allowed the item to be shipped to a new address. If I'm not mistaken, a dot-email would be considered a new Amazon account, thus with no address associated with it, so maybe this helps the attacker in that regard?