[hapless]

Typically, your former employers' HR departments are happy to confirm hiring/departure dates and "eligibility for re-hire."

As a result, those are two things you can't expect to successfully lie about.

[tomjen3]

Unless you have a friend with a cellphone...

[kgo]

...who doesn't mind commiting wire fraud.

[tomjen3]

Is it really fraud though?

I mean, fraud seems to me to occur only when you sell something to somebody, but then I am not a lawyer.