Ladies & gentleman, we might have a challenger for a new “Joanne the Scammer” meme.
Rachel Dolezal, the ousted ex-NAACP leader who faked being a Black woman all the way to the top of the organization is back in the news…and oh the irony.
Scammers from Nigeria have picked up on the Dolezal hype, and are now apparently trying to use her famous(?) name to funnel money from gullible Americans.
The Root fills in the facts on this weird story:
On Tuesday afternoon, comics writer Alex DeCampi took to Twitter with a screenshot of what appeared to be an email message from one “Mrs. Rachel H. Dolezal” who described herself as a “59 years old” U.S. citizen from Jacksonville, Fla.
“[I] am thinking of relocating since I am now right, I am one of those that took part in The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC Oil Compensation award payment in Africa and they refused to pay me,” the email reads. “I had over US$26,000 white in the US, trying to get my payment to no avail.”
COME ON RACHEL DOLEZAL YOU’RE NOT NIGERIAN EITHER pic.twitter.com/JBO2CenXrx
— Alex de Campi (@alexdecampi) April 4, 2017
From there, the email goes on to describe how the sender supposedly received compensation from the NNPC to the tune of $18.5 million and that you too can collect your reward by simply sending “Barrister George Alex” the small sum of $585.
A quick check of the scam-monitoring blog site ScamWarners, shows the Dolezal scam right at the top of the page, and if it’s not there you can just search her name and the whole email pops up.
The irony of a woman who scammed her way to the top of one of the most prominent Black organizations in American history, now herself being the subject of a scam.
Everything has come full circle.