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@chunshek @skinnylatte You might be surprised how many people get good jobs through not being checked for their falsified degrees and job histories. I don't have stats but I've encountered it personally more times than would seem reasonably possible. Catching them late can sometimes leave the employer helpless to dismiss because by then it's the employer's fault for having been slack about checking.

Recently we heard about this clown in New Zealand who says that CVs are future-oriented aspirational expressions of value and attitude, not a chronology of the past. https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360762966/justice-appointee-whose-law-degree-claim-was-mistake

Over here, such employees generally can't be dismissed over old lies. And not even for incompetence: that's been construed as the employer's failure to train.

I haven't been able to find my last diploma for something like five years. The last three of them were in Latin so good luck to local employers who want them... but then again, as you say, by the time HR's going through the motions, their goal may be merely to have it, not to verify it. Verifying is actually a lot easier than getting the documents in many cases because you can do it so quickly via the universities' registry or alumni websites.