Virtual Prom Dress Prank
7:06A scam V Prom organizer tells a mother her daughter must buy an expensive gown to attend the virtual prom or she will not graduate.
Transcript
154 linesHello?
Hello.
I am trying to reach uh Leslie.
Is Leslie uh available?
Um she is a little bit busy right now, but this is her mother.
Can I help you?
Okay, and your name is?
My name is Keisha.
Keisha.
All right.
Keisha, this is Ernest.
Ernest.
I am with um, I'm kind of like the event planner for the kids' prom.
So I'm calling, um, got you all the number from the school.
You are um and I'm glad and proud to let you know that the prom is going to be back on.
So hopefully Leslie will be excited about that.
What?
Boy, all right.
Um Yeah, she's gonna Wow, this is okay.
This is exciting.
Yeah, so it's gonna be it's it's it's V Prom.
Um I'm with V Prom.
And uh I wanted to call and make sure she knew all the particulars about the prom.
All right.
It's gonna be it's gonna be Saturday night, May 23rd.
You want to get a pen and maybe write jot some of this down?
Yeah, yeah.
Leslie, grab me a pen.
Thank you.
Yeah, I'll tell you what.
All right.
Okay, I'm ready.
Okay, Saturday, May twenty third.
Mm-hmm.
Got it.
Right, and that'll be seven.
That'll be seven PM.
Okay.
Okay, seven PM.
And where did you sorry?
Where did you say it's gonna be?
Because, you know, with everything going on, how how how's that gonna work?
Well, like I said, I'm with V Prom.
And V is for virtual.
Oh, V.
Oh, I thought you were saying V prokay, V, okay.
V is a virtual virtual.
Yeah, virtual prom.
It's so it's gonna be online and it is a requirement from the school that all of the students attend.
Another requirement you want to write this down.
She has to have she has to be dressed uh uh in uh informal wear.
Okay, so she's definitely gonna need a gown on.
Wait, so like we can't just do like her like her college interview clothes, just a cute little like a skirt and a shirt or something?
No, we need we need a full gown, ma'am.
What what what you would normally wear to a prom.
Wait, you're playing, right?
Uh no, not.
This is these are the requirements.
We know we're we're creating the prom atmosphere.
And we definitely want every student.
Yeah, and for the Yeah, and for the kids who already got their dresses, good for them.
But you know, we haven't been able to go anywhere and do anything, so I would assume you're making an exception for, you know, anybody who doesn't have anything, like we're gonna do that.
No, there are no exceptions, ma'am.
There are no exceptions.
You you will have to have a gown.
All the gentlemen will be wearing tuxedos, your uh the young ladies will be wearing gowns.
This is going to happen May twenty third at seven p.m.
And if it's virtual
virtual, like like virtual, like on the computer.
Yes.
But we will be taking notes on in your house, and whoever is not wearing the proper attire will not graduate.
Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Okay, I'm gonna need you to back up for a second because you're trying to tell me this this girl is required to go to this prom, required to wear elegant we uh prom dress, which I don't even I don't know where the hell we're gonna get a dress right now.
I don't even know who'd be open to get a dress.
Why am I gonna spend money on a dress when she's gonna use it in the house?
But besides that, you're trying to tell me wait a minute, wait, what you're trying to tell me that she can't graduate if she doesn't have a prom dress for the if she doesn't go to this And a dress?
That that those are the rules, man.
Those are the rules.
I just work.
I work for V I work for V Promethe.
And the school hired my uh the company that I work for.
Okay.
Here's my here's m mmm.
Okay.
All right.
I am trying to I am trying to count the 10 here.
Okay, wait a minute.
Here's my problem.
I'm still trying to figure out homeschooling for this girl so she can graduate in the first place with the right grades.
And you're trying to tell me if she doesn't figure out this prom mess, this online virtual crap that she's not gonna graduate.
Well, you need to take everything that I'm telling you and tell the school that they can figure it out because she's not gonna be showing up and know uh showing up.
What am I?
She's gonna be on the on the computer shit.
No, no, no.
This isn't gonna happen.
So you better figure it out.
This is ridiculous.
We have website that you can buy from our company if you would like to buy a dress and get a dress.
How convenient.
How convenient.
You run the prom, you run the dress company, and the dress is required.
That that just seems like more than a coincidence, but okay.
You know what?
Uh let no, let Leslie can't go to the prom this year.
I guess she ain't graduating because you know what?
I'm sure I'm sure the principal would like to hear from some parents who have a problem with this.
Everybody can't be on board with it.
This is crazy.
Why would you send your daughter to private school if you can't afford a dress?
That doesn't make sense to me.
Oh, what?
Who the who the f Leslie, go do your own work.
Go.
Whoa.
Who the f do you think you are?
Who are you talking to right now?
Why why would you send your daughter to private school if you can't you can't afford a dress?
I can't afford a dress.
You out here trying to trying to hustle for dresses and proms for virtual prom.
You know what?
I can have my own virtual prom.
I can call up everybody in her class and be like, let's all do virtual Zoom, whatever, and we can have our own prom and wear whatever we want.
But you out here trying to trying to say you can have a virtual prom and you have to wear a dress and spend money on it, and we can't.
Get it from your site.
You have got to be fing kidding me right now.
I don't know who the f you think you are, but I know one thing.
I'm not trying to worry about no my fing daughter wearing a a damn prom wearing a prom dress to her fing living room so she can be on the Skype Zoom, whatever, with her friend.
No, you know, this is crazy.
I have bigger things to deal with.
I don't know if you know, but there's a fing pandemic going on outside.
And you out here trying to hustle me for a fing prom dress, and you're trying to tell me she's not gonna graduate without a fingers.
You can get you can get this dress overnight if you go to our website, ma'am.
That's why even if I was stupid, even if I was a dumbest mother f in the world and I was dumb enough to get a dress, I would never get it from you.
I don't know who the f you are talking to, talking to me about my financials and what I can afford in private school.
You don't know who the f I am, so I don't know who you are calling me and talking to me about some sh.
You're crazy.
This is fingers.
Okay, well let me ask me ask Let me ask Let me ask you this.
Is your your husband is Adrian, correct?
Yeah, why do you yes, why do you need to know that?
Adrian told me to call you.
This is nephew Tommy from the Steve Harvey Morning show.
Your husband Adrian got me to prank phone call you.
Okay.
I need
I just need a moment.
I was about to put on a mask and march down to that school.
Tommy, it is it is too crazy out here in these streets for you to be fing with people like this.
Oh my goodness.
Tell me this, baby.
It's 2020.
What is the baddest?
And I mean the baddest radio show in the land.
Well, you know it's the Steve Harvey morning show, of course.