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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 24 2012 @ 02:45 PM EDT
>Maybe most people assume they'd get in trouble if they ever forged a return
address on physical postage (you might, if you used it to avoid paying postage
or for some other kind of fraud, but the odds of getting caught are low) so they
don't want to think about how easy it is in the physical world.

My mother (in mid-America) amused herself by putting off-the-wall return
addresses on letters sent to her children (several of us went to college in
Florida). One such letter, ostensibly from "Fidel Castro", arrived in
Tampa ... in tatters ... in a baggie. I think she was more careful about her
aliases after that.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 24 2012 @ 02:52 PM EDT
I used to tell people "it's no different from the return address on a snailmail envelope, the sender can write whatever he wants and nobody ever checks it",...
My mum was visiting her sister in Canada and relations across the border in the USA a few years ago and sent Christmas cards whilst there. She used her UK address for the return address I guess as she would want any return of post to come home, not to the relations...
...Maybe most people assume they'd get in trouble if they ever forged a return address on physical postage (you might, if you used it to avoid paying postage or for some other kind of fraud, but the odds of getting caught are low) so they don't want to think about how easy it is in the physical world.
She accidently didn't put enough postage on one of the cards she sent (she didn't realise the excess required for square envelopes) and it got returned transatlantic for further postage before it would be delivered! (To send the card transatlantic would have been even higher than the original postage + excess.) I did ask my post office for a stamp for the whatever cent price it was, but they for some reason insisted on being paid in GBP (for the full transatlantic price) before they would return it back to the US postal service for delivery to the relations in the USA.

Fraudulent From: fields is the main reason for backwash spam - spam sent with a false from: field gets returned to that eaddr when the send fails; I wouldn't trust the From: field (I don't even trust the To: field, but that's another matter).

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