<P> Address fraud is a type of fraud in which the perpetrator uses an inaccurate or fictitious address in order to gain money or some other benefit or service to which s / he is not legally entitled, to commit some form of theft, or to hide one's location from authorities . The crime may involve stating one's address as a place where s / he never lived, or continuing to use a previous address where one no longer lives as one's own . Laws pertaining to these types of crimes vary by location . </P> <P> One form of address fraud involves using one's old address as a current address to receive mail . It is committing by deliberately failing to report an address change and using the old address on legal documents . </P> <P> Another involves the representation of a communal mail box as one's own address where one resides in order to take advantage of benefits available to those residing in its location . </P> <P> The crime is often associated with identity theft, taking place in about one - third of identity theft cases . </P>

Is it illegal to use someone else's mailing address