I've definitely seen people stretching the truth to various degrees. I do it too, because you're in for unnecessary difficulty getting past the recruiter screen if you don't do _some_ spinning.
The key is to only stretch it to the extent that you can explain your background in detail to the hiring manager and be able to openly admit where you don't know much if those areas come up. Generally speaking a hiring manager you actually want to work for understands that experience is heavily dependent on what your last role needed, and skills can be picked up as long as you have enough of the bare minimum covered.