I work for a big consulting firm. In our proposals to clients we provide a "fun fact" about ourselves. In the last three proposals I've claimed to have canoed around the UK, wrestled a bear for charity and be selected as an astronaut for the European Space Agency. Nobody checks.
@fesshole the assumption here is that people believed you without checking? My friend, they didn't even fully read your proposal.

@bransonturner

Read?

No body reads that stuff. They don't have time.
They don't even bother to read the executive summary these days. They just AI it.

Thats why ChatGPT is boom.
@fesshole