Hi MadiMo,
I haven't personally come across this, but I could see that it is certainly possible.
Here in the UK, the majority of Agencies do actually know what a BA does, indeed one or two that I know use to be BAs. That said, I have or more than one occasion a CV sent to me to review about offering them a role, who clearly have never been a BA and when you talk to the candidate, they clearly don't really want to be one. Why does the Agency send the CV then, I hear you ask?
Well, and I don't know if this happens in other countries, but here in the UK, some company/Agencies work on a contract basis of every CV the Agency sends the Company they are due a payment. So some unscrupulous Agencies deliberately send any old CV in, however obvious they aren't a BA. This is annoying both for me and for the candidate as it wastes both our times, but it does happen.
Not quite what you were referring to, but similar.
I did have a chat with our Head of Data. I asked him if he ever had that sort of problem. Whilst he said he hadn't directly, he does find that very few Agencies seem to realise the difference between a BI, Business analytics and a MI Analyst. All 3 are different roles, looking at different areas, but often he finds CVs being sent to him for the same candidate for each role. A bit like a BA being put forward for a Project Manager role I guess.
Still, an interesting topic I will admit.