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They always change your CV - to remove your direct contact details if nothing else, so the client can't contact you directly and not pay them their "well deserved"1 markup.
1: As in most recruiters deserve to be dropped down a well
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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One thing is changing or hiding personal details, attaching their logo or similar.
Another is actually changing your employment history, education or background.
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1: As in most recruiters deserve to be dropped down a deep well
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I stand corrected! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Actually I'm more for a public display of some kind. breaking on the wheel, a hanging, ... Darn, is there no justice in this world! 
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Hanging's too good for them!
(considering that, in my experience, most HR "agents" are female, the dunking stool seems about right.  )
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Aless Alessio wrote: They cannot change your CV without your permission.
It will be in their T&Cs. Recruiters always amend your CV, it's basic industry practice. They like to present them in the same general format and they'll use their "expertise" to cut out things they don't think are relevant to the job in order to make it concise.
Your post was as if they were adding things and making things up, which they weren't, they were cutting it down which is something they all do.
If a recruiter does this badly or to your detriment, then they don't get the business. The ones that do it well do get the business. It's survival of the fittest.
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Not really.
All the recruiters I met, they always asked me to "modify" my CV in order to underline certain competences rather then others.
Or, moving "down" aspects of my background which would not really fit the role i was applying for.
I would not say "ALL"
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And once you've made those amendments they hack it to backs before sending it on
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I ll cut their heart and eat their flesh 
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I concur.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Don't you have any direct way to contact potential employers? I mostly upload my CV directly to employer website.
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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I have done that but recieved 'we do not accept unsolicted CV, go do something painful' or words to that effect...
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Unsolicited? I would assume that you would upload the CV for a particular job opening. If they have not updated jobs on their own website, you are stuck.
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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I'm not sure if there is a law against this, but there certainly should be.
I've had my share of bad recruiters and I try to avoid them as much as possible.
Half of them don't even read it, some dig up an old version despite you sent them the latest and though I never saw it, I'm pretty sure in some occasions they changed mine before sending as well.
In addition you repeatedly receive mails for inappropriate job offers.
Not once have I had the feeling they were an added value to the recruiting process. 
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I mean, becasue of there hiding of information I have been submitted to one company I wont work for due to the fact they were rude to me during a phone interview and accused me of wasting there time after tearing my CV apart. They complain about getting my CV 4 times from different sources, due to the fact the agencies wont tell me who the client is!
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Ok, I can understand them removing your name and contact info... I mean, that's how they make their money... Prevent you and the company from contacting each other directly, so you're forced to use them as intermediaries.
But if they're screwing up the important bits, it's time to find an agent with a functioning brain.
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"it's time to find an agent with a functioning brain.". Hmmm is that possible?
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It's not impossible, just very very improbable.
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I got burned by that once. CV was reformatted into incomprehensibility.
After that I always bring at least one copy of my CV with me to the interview just in case.
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I always do, just in case!
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- Work only with agencies that have a local presence. I want a person I can speak with face-to-face. It makes me far harder to ignore.
- Check references on the agency from friends and acquaintances. There are online review sites ... although I'm cautious about trusting opinions on what is an unregulated forum.
- Interview the agency so they can explain why you should let them should represent you. If they act like they are doing you a favor ... they're not.
- READ YOUR CONTRACT WITH THE AGENCY! It's scary how many people I know glance at their contract and sign it. Unless you understand all the legalese, it may be worth having the contract reviewed by a lawyer. If the contract doesn't define payment time frames (agency to you) request the update.
- Do not allow blind submissions, e.g., if I don't know who the client is, my resume will not be submitted. I sometimes work in state government, and a double submission can get you blackballed. At the very least it will disqualify you.
- Require review of all altered resumes. If the agency refuses, find a new agency.
- Bring your resume to the interview. If the one submitted is not what was approved, let the client know. It may not help then, but you know you can't trust the agency and neither can the client. I've had interviewers ask me for a resume and compare to the one submitted, so smart interviewers don't trust the agencies either.
- Don't be a jerk. This is business. Keep things friendly but impersonal; when you refuse, do it politely. Don't burn any bridges unnecessarily, even if the other guy is being a jerk.
My last point is critical. Remain professional, regardless of situation or outcome. A mentor told me, "He who gets mad first, loses." I don't fully agree with that, but I know that when I get mad, *I* lose.
A huge caveat: I'm in the middle-Atlantic USA in a good job market. Refusing one agency won't hurt me, but folks in tighter markets may not have that ability. I have been in a position where I had to take what job I could get, and am thankful to be in a good position now.
I'm ramping up to sign my 4th contract with my current agency. There is a strong trust relationship in both directions and I know from experience what to expect and that the owner's ethics are good ones -- he does his best for the consultants AND the clients. I'll continue to work with this agency unless things don't line up and they cannot place me.
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"Mickey" (that was his real name) stapled the first page of my CV onto the rest of someone else's.
I thought the interviewer was on drugs while he was referring to my CV during the interview ... The interview never got anywhere after that; even after seeing what the problem was ... Like it was "my" fault.
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I had a similar thing apart from the agent had added some stuff to my CV, including a deep love for rock climbing & camping (I dont sleep in tents did it once for Glastonbury never again!) also 2 years in the RAF...
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