In the years before I set up my own business, I had a rough couple of years where I had to take whatever job I could get. My last workforce job before I left for maternity and my own business was a dull office temp job. I was not expecting the job to be much, but I wasn't expecting less than one hour of menial, kiddie work every day that would make an office junior bored, much less a multilingual executive assistant (which is what I was.) There was lots to be done in the office and lots of places where I could have lent a hand, but as is common in too many Scottish workforces, wanting to do more than stare out a window 6 hours a day was greeted with raised eyebrows and whispers of that temp "trying to build an empire for herself."
One day I happened to find my own CV as it had been sent to the company via the temp agency. After one look, I wanted to punch something. Yes, it was my CV with my name and address on it, but what was contained in it was so heavily redacted, censored, edited, and chopped down that I literally could not recognise it as my own. Entire years of my life, job skills, experiences - simply deleted. All my database and web and computer experience - deleted. The only computer skills it said I had were Microsoft Word and Excel. My managerial positions - deleted.
It seems this temp agency had a lazy recruitment consultant behind in her sales quota, so she saw an office junior job that needed to be filled, grabbed the first candidate CV she could find, and chopped up the CV to make the candidate - me - look like a suitable fit for the role.
When you apply for a job, you assume the company is going to get the CV you send the agency - not the censored, fictionalised CV retyped on the agency's own letterhead to "brand" you as their "ideal candidate". When you are staring out a window dying of boredom, you assume the company have made a consicous choice not to use your other skills, not because they don't know about them at all.
So there's no point in causing a fuss about a candidate lying on their own CV when agencies do it every day as a matter of course.