These are desperate times and have been for a year or more. There are a lot of over-optimistic applicants out there and you can't really blame them for trying, though I'm sure it does make your task a bit more onerous. In the good times the under-qualified guys would have stood a better chance at getting into an airline or persuading a bizjet operator to give them an office job with the possibility of a type rating later. But that aint happening at the moment, so they will try anything to try and land any job. Its just the way it is at the moment ...