India, July 8 -- A Redditor claiming to have bought a Range Rover with his own money at the age of 25 was fact-checked by an internet sleuth who dug up the car's details to announce that the purchase was actually funded by his father. The fact-check is now going viral online, having crossed from Reddit to X, where many applauded the sleuth for 'exposing' the Redditor's lies.

It all started with a post on the Reddit forum 'Indian_flex'. A user (Slushiii11) shared a photograph of himself posing next to a Range Rover. He blurred out his own face and the first few letters of the license plate. However, the last four digits on the license plate - 0011 - remained visible in his picture.

The Reddit user claimed that he had bought the luxury ca...