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Is it illegal to use a return address that is not your own specifically to trick someone into opening a letter?
Wiki User
∙ 15y ago
Even if it were, how could they prove it? Hundreds of post office employees would have touched it before you and unless you have been arrested they would have no reference to your fingerprints. I once sent a package to a friend of mine and made the return address Mental Patent #1 Sych Ward level 10 My own mind, I think 420-000 They never even looked at it even though they were the ones to hand it back to me and make me write a return address.
Wiki User
∙ 14y ago
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∙ 15y agoYes. It is called Mail Fraud and they do not take things like that lightly.
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