Friday 5 August 2022 06:40 PM Meet the man who chauffeurs the ultra-rich using decoy cars and armoured ... trends now

Do people who are worth hundreds of millions of dollars (and more) order taxis?

They might, but it's more likely they'll use a 'chauffeur security service' – such as the one run by Nathan Foy, called Fortis. He's the author of 'What Rich Clients Want (But Won't Tell You)' and knows a thing or two about how the super-rich like to get from A to B.

His job is to get them to B without getting kidnapped or robbed – and his firm uses a variety of eye-catching special-ops-style techniques to guarantee their safety, including decoy cars, armoured vehicles and employing military veterans.

He explained to MailOnline Travel that the 'bread and butter' of what Fortis does, is 'chauffeured cars and security… for clients worth $600million (£492million) or more and who owns one or more private jets'.

'The world's most discerning travellers,' he added.

And he can chauffeur clients all over the world.

He explained that while Fortis has its HQ in South Carolina (with an office opening in Nevada in September), it also has offices in Hong Kong and India – 'it's about 25,000 trips a year and about 1,000 cities'.

The aim, said Foy, isn't to 'return fire' but to 'protect and evacuate'. And one of the key tactical assets Fortis deploys to do this is the 'chase car', which could be a straight decoy car – to confuse would-be villains - or could be a second chauffeur in place for convenience, to mop up errands and the like. Foy said: 'After all, if your partner has left something at the hotel or somebody needs to go fetch something, it's literally going to ruin your day.'

It's also a show of strength.

Foy said criminals tend to mess less with a convoy as it's 'not as easy to target'.

He continued: 'The chase car is particularly helpful in Mexico and in countries in Central and South America.