How would that background verification work exactly? Your groomed references are providing objective evaluations? Bite you indeed.
If you don't know how to do background verification on people then you have far bigger problems than your fears of being gamed.
What I am saying is: I think you know and you have an agenda.
If you truly don't know then this is really something you should know if you are doing the job you are saying you are doing.
To use an analogy: I would not waste my time explaining how type systems work to someone who is arguing rabidly against them in an online forum.
If they care then it's something that is so important they should actually go out and educate themselves before getting into conversations about it.