is forged email legal????

I am doing this to be "cute" she already likes me. I just don't want cute to be stupid. And for the yo yo who said he would let me know how the date went- do u really think i would post anything that would reveal anything????

From my understanding, forging email is not illegal, because technically, you are not hacking someone's computer, however, I'm sure that most ISP's have some kind of rule against it in their usage policy. This however, is rarely gonna be enforced, and as long as your not doing it to hurt anyone or do something malicious, then it won't be that big an issue.


Thanks,
PuRe

Right now there's no law against it but their soon wil be. part of Patriot Act II (the wrath of george) will make it a fellony to hide or mask the origin of communications (remember that thread about the honeypots?)

It is not for any malicious purpose, and you are communicating with someone who already knows
and likes you; so I say go for it.

As for the legality of it, I seriously doubt that there are any ISP's, governments, and very few
companies that would bother with legal action over such a thing. Even then I am pretty sure
that 99.9% of the cases filed would be civil and not criminal.

All the same, I say if you can no longer play a harmless trick on your girl to get a smile out of her, then
it is a ****ed up world we live in theses days.

Good luck on your date!

jxrry: Real easy if you use outlook or outlook express......

Open either and go to the properties of the internet based mail. There is a "reply to" address so that you can have replied sent to a single mailbox. Change it to whatever you want. It cannot be considered forgery since the headers still show the true source.

I agree with Tiger, when she receives your email the header will show the source of the email. Now if you change that you may run into what you call illegal, but I doubt the FBI would be running in your house anytime soon. Your ISP isn't going to notice most likely, there are thousands (prolly alot more than that) of people out there running Linux on servers and do this all time. Hopefully for you she reads the sender and doesn't dump it right into the junk bin.

Sorry about the lateness of this reply. I did some checking and found that as some others have stated that the laws that apply in the 'real' world are not always applied to the 'virtual' world. However, if she does like you and is not feel threatened or harassed, you're green. If however, something does not work out between you and this e-mail is part of it for whatever reason, it could be construed as Cyber Stalking. However, that is taking it to the extreme (a "credible threat"), and for the regular person this should not even be an issue. I also found as many stated here that ISPs won't react to something like this, unless a complaint is made or malicious activity is detected.

In short - go for it... if you haven't already.

:cool:

I'd bet an email adress with a ? in it won't work..

so I'd say atleast lose the ? at the end..