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One night in February, Jacqueline Jordan’s ex-boss showed up at her door in Airdrie, Alta., with an outrageous offer.

“Jackie, I’m gonna change your life,” she said he told her.

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He announced he was going to gift Jordan $1 million — a portion of the riches he said he had amassed from a lottery win and smart investments.

Jordan was skeptical. But over the following weeks, she said, he managed to string her along, showing her documents purportedly from various financial institutions as proof of his wealth. In late March, he convinced Jordan and her daughter — along with several other families to whom he had allegedly promised similar gifts — to meet him in downtown Calgary for the big payout.

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Though she waited in an office building lounge each day for the better part of a week, Jordan said her former boss never came through with the money.

“He’s after the attention. He’s after people to be in awe of him,” Jordan, 49, told the National Post. “He’s got to be the hero. It doesn’t matter that it’s all fictional.”