[Rick Lee]

This is long before AI, but I have a family member who fudged a lot of stuff on his resume. He actually "joined" a place that looked like a real job, but was, in fact, a front that would vouch for you and farm out to a few subs to also vouch for you if you put it all on your resume. This got him his first job, which he kept for a few years and then he was on his way. I guess, once you've had four jobs that lasted at least five years each, they stop looking at the real early stuff.

There was an old SNL sketch with Billy Crystal about a bogus college called Winston University that kicked back 50% of the tuition to the kids, gave them a bogus degree, etc.