is faking a cv a criminal offence

[bibacux2001]

If you present forged certificates and an embelished CV is it illegal? It infuriates me that people are now buying fake qualifications off the internet and basically undermining genuine qualifications and the imense effeort not to say financial cost of obtaining them. Is it against the law and if so what is the actual offence.

[Barmaid]

Obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception I'd say.

[Doctor.Legg2]

dependant on what job you apply for

to get a licence to work in a casino its essential you dont have a criminal record.if you have one and they do a crb check then you are commitiing an offence as far as im aware.

like wise you can be sacked for lying on a cv as youve breached your contract by giving false or misleading information.

[bibacux2001]

thanks for that guys but any further answers or information on how to report or combat this would be helpful. I spent literally thousands obtaining my degrees and am now aware of people buying fake HND's etc to obtain work. I am crious as to wether the police would act on this.

[jno]

if anyone gets a job by using faked qualifications, it's the employer they've defrauded, not you. You can only ask yourself whether you'd really want to work for an employer who's so careless.

[Buenchico]

Ooh! You can tell that AB's resident barrister, Barmaid, only works in the civil field these days ;-)

'Obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception' was the old wording used under the Theft Act 1968. That charge has now been replaced with 'fraud by false representation', under the Fraud Act 2006:
http://tinyurl.com/lo8ef3

The offence carries a maximum sentence of 10 years imprisonment (plus a fine):
http://tinyurl.com/lvmnlv

It's not an offence to buy or possess a fake certificate. No offence is committed, by the person obtaining the certificate, until such time as he (or she) tries to use it for gain. So you'd have to know that someone was actually using such a certificate, rather than simply possessing it, before you could report the matter for possible action by the police.

Chris

[bibacux2001]

thanks chris that seems to wrap it up. I appreciate everybodys input. it is wrong on so many levels, My hnd cost me about �3000 and my degrees cost me �8000 why should someone get away with paying �50 to represent this effort. Oh and yes I would be happy to report it.