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No. One requirement for criminal fraud is that you gain something of value.
> - Put in a mail forwarding card with your name from a former address to a random real address like a Starbucks, Taco Bell, apartment complex w/o unit number, etc. Perhaps, but I would have assumed creating a USPS mail forward under false pretenses like this would be fraudulent. They seem to take such thing seriously. GP also mentions in a sibling comment about what to do if you need address verification for somethi…
It is absurd to accept something like a utility bill as a proof of anything. Even birth certificates I don’t really understand - my original birth certificate is hand typed by an IBM Selectric typewriter on common security paper and embossed with the county seal of the area where I was born. As very few people would be able to verify the seal I think it’s more or less worthless as an secure document because it could be reproduced or approximated so easily. You can obtain guides with examples of secure documents but they are large and expensive, and I’ve never seen them at retail banks or the DMV. I’m not sure how comprehensive they are either - collecting samples at the county or city level across the decades would be a Herculean task.