Sometimes people get away with lying. Sometimes they get caught. This is life.

Don't say, or do shit.

You've probably ballsed this up with your second line:

Since then I did other sort of job that is only a little connected to my previous role. While I claimed I'm still with the old employer.

But this MAY be recoverable.

I'm UK based. The positive thing is that unless you work for a small SME kind of employer you MIGHT be fine.

Employers will give limited information in a reference - your position, and the dates worked. Generally, that's it. Employers are so scared of being sued, that that's all they will provide and you can use that to your advantage. If they provide "opinion" then they potential open themselves to lawsuits. So any large.medium sized company will only provide extremely limited information.

I would advise you to say NOTHING. Do NOTHING.

Let the employment checks take place. Assuming you worked for a decent sized company, your gross negligence or whatever reason you needed to leave won't be mentioned.

Best case scenario is that no employment check takes place. They don't bother doing it. They can't contact your reference, whatever. It's a long shot. But also not unlikely. It's happened to me quite a few times. Not all companies check - but it does depend on the company, your position within the recruitment process etc.

If you've managed to side step the recruitment process by having an "inside contact". They really want to hire you (good candidate). Small company you're joining. Then you might get lucky and not get checked.

If you're joining a big company, with processes in place, and no recruitment side step - you're gonna get checked.

Next best (and most likely scenario) is you do get checked and they provide minimal information.

Problem you've got, is that you're claiming you've worked at this company when you didn't. This might fuck your right over.

If it's only been a short period of time, you MIGHT be able to blag some sort of mix up with dates or whatever.

If it's been longer than a few weeks, you might have snookered yourself. You'll need a good story for why you're claiming you work somewhere you don't.

Any time you lie, or want to lie, assume someone will find out somehow some way.

If you're not willing to incur them finding out, don't lie.

Don't overestimate the abilities and coherence of the HR dept.

So you said one thing in your interview, and it seems like you are going to have to say another thing to the background check company.

Tricky one to answer. Without knowing a lot about it, I would be tempted to tell the truth to the check company, without revising the story with your employer company.

One of the things that might trip you up is that they might request your previous p45 document (or whatever that is called now), which will have your tax code on it. That is if you are PAYE.

You may be overestimating the efficiency of the sec company that does the checks. They likely have a bunch of min wage NPCs doing the actual work, and you can bet they are all incompetent and retarded.

Retardation is your friend in this sense. this is how so many people get away with tax dodging in the UK - the quality of the people in these low end jobs is so low, and they care so little about the quality of their work, that it lets you get away with almost anything.

For example - my friend asked me about a situation - he had qualified for bank account, but one of the conditions was that he didn't have any other bank accounts in the UK. He said he didn't - and go the account. But he has several other bank accounts. Then he got all worried and asked me what should he do if they 'found out'. I point blank burst out laughing. He has no idea of the chaos, utter chaos, that is going on behind teh curtains in any given UK organisation.

Another friend of mine has a mortgage with one bank, and another mortage with anotehr bank on a house that he rents out. He nervously asked me 'what if they find out?' (condition is that he can only have one house, to get the lower rate). Again, I fell about the room laughing at the idea that a UK bank has the resources or brain power to 'find things out'. They are barely functional behind the scenes. I reliabley informed him that there were many customers of that bank that had SEVERAL mortgages WITH THE SAME BANK all on the condition that each one of those mortgages were the 'principle and primary residence'.

they have no way or appetite to find out. they are clueless.