What's the consequence of him being impersonated here though? Some fraudster pays his bill and gets nothing out of it?
On that note: why hasn't the account been shut down for nonpayment?
(That price is too small for there to be a running instance; it's most likely for storage belonging to an instance that was shut down, such as a 16GB EBS snapshot. It is reasonable that Amazon would be very careful about deleting that.)
This is not one of those "by any means, achieve the ends" type scenarios.
The account gets shut down