Well Ralph is here.
He came with a question,
he wants to know
if the woman that he has sent over $150,000
is real or if she's someone
that's taking advantage of him.
Well, last year,
Dennis was sitting on this very stage
in the same chair as Ralph.
Dennis believed that his fiancee,
Kimberly Escobar,
and her young daughter
were stranded and destitute in Amsterdam,
and he asked me
to help bring them home.
Take a look.
My fiancee, Kimberly Escobar,
is a truly awesome woman.
She's the woman of my dreams.
Ever since we started talking about marriage,
she started referring to me as her husband.
I'd loved hearing
that she was calling me her husband already.
But his fiancee and her daughter
are stuck in Amsterdam.
And he has yet to see them in person.
Dennis spent over $200,000
on his mission to get her home.
He says this is not a scam
because he knows Kimberly is 100% real.
There's been one person I've been able to count on,
his name is Soji.
I wasn't able to do any banking in South Africa,
so we figured out a way to get money to her.
I feel like I owe Soji the world.
You've run into
a hell of a lot of corruption.
I get money sent over
to her for one thing,
she gets it taken care of,
immigration steps in,
and says your temporary passport has expired.
Let's take a look at this passport.
Date of expiration,
it's not expired.
Signature of bearer,
it's signed by somebody named Frank.
This has been a cluster since day one.
You've sent her $49,000, $18,000, $23,000,
you've spent $211,024.
And she is now where?
Staying in Amsterdam.
I am Facetiming that woman right now.
She's not in Amsterdam,
she's here,
she's in this building.
I hope she has my money.
And her name is not Kimberly Escobar.
Come on out. (audience applauding)
This is Dennis.
This lady is
a victim in this just as you are.
Her identity has been stolen
and used it to scam you.
I don't know what to say,
I'm speechless.
I'm not from Amsterdam,
I'm actually from Texas.
Kimberly Escobar never stayed
at the Capital Hydro Hotel.
Soji, by the way,
did not work at the hotel either.
You wanna try and give this person a phone call?
(phone ringing)
Soji, you didn't send Kim any money?
I'm broke,
I returned the money back to my wife.
Now listen here,
you sorry (bleeping),
you're not broke,
you're scam's up you sorry bastard.
You scammed me out of $211,000,
do you understand that?
I don't understand.
Yeah, you (bleeping) understand you sorry (bleeping).
You start lookin' over your back,
'cause I'm gonna come kill your (bleeping) sorry ass.
You scamming bastard.
(audience cheering)
Dennis was kind enough
to come here today
to help me help Ralph.
So Dennis come on out.
(audience applauding)
How you doin'? How you doin'?
I am so sorry for my behavior that day.
Have a seat, have a seat. My outburst.
How you doin'? Good.
Hi guys. Hi.
Dennis it's so good to see you.
You were pretty hot
when you were here last time.
(audience laughing)
When he came out he said
I apologize for
my behavior last time and. That's not me.
And ah listen,
I totally got it 100%.
My mom still hasn't but. (audience laughing)
Yeah I understand,
I think everybody understood.
Good. You've been listening
to everything so far today,
and talking with him
don't you agree he's a fine gentleman?
You are,
you're great. Thank you.
And I feel for you.
I feel that you're in my shoes.
When I was sitting back watching it's,
a lot of it's the repeated stuff
that I saw going on through mine.
Don't send 'em any more money.
It's a scam.
Do you believe for
a second that Louise is real?
No.
No it's too much like mine.
We have on occasion been able
to actually talk
to some these scammers and one of the things
that they told us
that we really learned from
because one of the questions I had is,
come on you've got the same computers we do,
why don't you run spell
and grammar check on this stuff
before you send it? Uh huh.
And they said it is a screening device.
If the person we're working is willing
to over look
the bad grammar that tells us
that's a good target. Ah.