If he wasn't aware of the original Moby, that tells you he was just ignorant of the electronic music scene during the 90s, which is plausible because most Americans had not been exposed to electronic music yet.
http://amp.dascene.net/detail.php?detail=modules&view=5024
"This is a compilation of some of my demoscene music made between 1989 and 1993 when I was still called Moby, before some other guy took my moniker :P. These tunes were released by some of the best demogroups ever : Sanity, Alcatraz, Quartex, Dreamdealers... All tracks were composed using Protracker on the Amiga." https://elmobo.bandcamp.com/album/amiga-days-remasters
The worldwide distribution was though BBS networks and the Internet. Just for reference, when these Amiga modules started circulating, the IBM PC was only capable of making "beeping" noises.
Not to mention, I had an Amiga those days. And used Protracker. That doesn't make Amiga MOD groups a required staple for anyone in electronic music in that 6-18 month window, and it's disingenuous to claim otherwise.
Edit: in fact, per http://www.instinctrecords.com/artists/moby :
"Born Richard Melville Hall, Moby received his nickname as a child; it derives from the fact that Herman Melville, the author of Moby Dick, is his great-great grand uncle. Moby was raised in Darien, CT, where he played in a hardcore punk band called the Vatican Commandos as a teenager. Later, he briefly sang with Flipper, while their singer was serving time in jail. He briefly attended college, before he moved to New York City, where he began DJing in dance clubs. During the late ’80s and 1990, he released a number of singles and EPs for the independent label Instinct."
I think the jury of reasonable men err on the side of coincidence, not coat-tail riding moniker-stealing.