Which British swindler posed as a nobleman to extort large sums of money?

Lord Gordon Gordon sounds like a made-up name, so it's a great wonder that this con man got away with posing as a British nobleman for as long as he did. He extracted large sums of money from those he duped in America, including the land commissioner for the Northern Pacific Railway, as well as one of the richest businessmen of the age, Jay Gould, before fleeing to Canada.

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