Young trader claims to be a multimillionaire but rents his cars

Young trader claims to be a multimillionaire but rents his cars

Can you be a multimillionaire at 25 and not own a single car? That's the question hanging over the phenomenon of the supposed spiritual heir to Llados, a character who claims to have amassed a fortune in just two years through trading and yet rents his vehicles because, according to his story, he has been scammed three times in a row while buying the same car. The scene, filmed at a luxury car dealership in Dubai, shows the young man and his mentor telling the story to the salesperson, who watches the spectacle in disbelief.

Two years of trading and a fortune under suspicion

The man in question claims that in barely two years he went from zero to multimillionaire thanks to trading. The claim, made without any audit or verification whatsoever, is the first brick of a story that crumbles as soon as you scratch the surface. In the video, the young man admits that he doesn't buy cars — he rents them. His reason: he was scammed three times while purchasing the same vehicle, a claim that neither he nor his companion backs up with a shred of evidence.

The dealership scene is an exercise in unintentional improvisation. The mentor, a supposed friend, keeps shouting "It's true!" — which sounds more like a slogan than a testimony. The salesperson, a luxury professional, watches the performance with the face of someone who has seen half a dozen imitators of imitators parade through his showroom. There's no contract, no bank transfer, nothing. Just words and a camera.

The girlfriend, the high point of the farce

If the dealership was already a picture, the girlfriend's appearance takes the scene into the realm of unintentional cinema. The young woman steps into frame and the whole thing takes on a parodic air that several observers have compared to "Antiestéticar and Loathing in Dubai," minus the drugs: here the intoxicant is the accumulation of ever-bigger boasts. The protagonist's glazed look as he leaves the dealership, as if he'd just seen the abominable snowman, is the shot that sums it all up.

The parallel with Llados is inevitable. If the latter was a master of deception with something artistic in his internalization of the character, this second-tier version is cruder, more forced, more precarious. The difference, say those who have trinc both phenomena, is that Llados at least built a coherent story over years. Here everything falls apart in a single video.

The business of selling smoke in Dubai

The context doesn't help. Dubai has become the favorite stage for a generation of supposed traders who rent houses with garages full of luxury cars. The owners, many of them having fled their home countries, rent them out at prices far below Miami's to keep up the storefront. The result is an ecosystem where the appearance of wealth is cheaper than ever and where anyone with a camera can pretend to be a multimillionaire.

The question left hanging is how long this kind of story can hold up. The answer, judging by how similar cases have evolved, is that as long as there's an audience willing to believe, there will be someone to tell the tale. The problem isn't the 25-year-old. The problem is the market that applauds him.

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In the end, the only verifiable figure in the whole story is his age: 25. The rest is smoke, and smoke, like rented cars, is never really yours.