{
  "registry_version": "2026.08.2",
  "data": {
    "title": "Reference Check Discrepancy or Regulatory Ineligibility",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [
      "EVD-001"
    ],
    "content": "# Reference Check Discrepancy or Regulatory Ineligibility\n\nThird-party check reveals unverified employment dates, unconfirmed degrees, or direct conflict of interest.\n\n### Structural Context\n- **Actor:** `candidate`\n- **Nature:** `rule`\n- **Removability:** `candidate`\n\n### Non-Inferences\n- Administrative mismatch in dates is distinct from fraudulent resume misrepresentation.",
    "id": "M-021",
    "type": "mechanism",
    "summary": "Third-party check reveals unverified employment dates, unconfirmed degrees, or direct conflict of interest.",
    "operates_at": [
      "B-011"
    ],
    "emissions": [
      {
        "artifact": "A-011",
        "fidelity": "direct",
        "likelihood": "high",
        "evidence": [
          "EVD-001"
        ]
      },
      {
        "artifact": "A-002",
        "fidelity": "euphemism",
        "likelihood": "medium",
        "evidence": [
          "EVD-001"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "facets": {
      "actor": "candidate",
      "nature": "rule",
      "visibility": "observable",
      "removability": "candidate"
    },
    "amplifies": [],
    "masks": [],
    "evidence_level": "established",
    "honest_baseline": true,
    "specimens": [
      {
        "kind": "email",
        "label": "Where the check disagreed with the record",
        "lines": [
          {
            "text": "The background provider returned a mismatch on employment dates for one role: our vendor has March 2019 – June 2021, your application states January 2019 – August 2021.",
            "tell": true
          },
          {
            "text": "We are required to pause the offer while this is reconciled. If you have a payslip or contract covering those months, that resolves it.",
            "tell": false
          }
        ],
        "reading": "A resolvable discrepancy in a third-party record, with a named document that closes it. This is one of the few mechanisms with a direct, evidenced remedy."
      }
    ],
    "non_inferences": [
      "Administrative mismatch in dates is distinct from fraudulent resume misrepresentation."
    ]
  }
}