They named it for Ponzi - a Dickens scene had already laid the plan
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They named it for Ponzi - a Dickens scene had already laid the plan
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They named it for Ponzi - a Dickens scene had already laid the plan
In this episode, we trace the origins and mechanics of a paper-based investment fraud that predated Charles Ponzi and persisted across continents and centuries. The episode follows the chain of operators, literary descriptions, and structural features that made the scheme repeatable - and asks why one name stuck to it.
Person: Charles Ponzi
Person: Adele Spitzeder
Person: Sarah Howe
Date: 1844
Event: discovery of an international reply coupon in a Boston office
- Postal inspectors in Boston found an international reply coupon used as the stated foundation of a multimillion-dollar operation.
- Charles Dickens described the same payout-from-new-funds structure in Martin Chuzzlewit and Little Dorrit in 1844.
- Adele Spitzeder ran a private banking house in Bavaria before 1871 that paid early depositors with new deposits and was later prosecuted.
- Sarah Howe operated the Ladies' Deposit in the 1880s, offering 8% monthly interest to women and collapsing when new money slowed.
- The scheme’s mechanics: opaque promised returns, payments to early investors drawn from new investors, paper statements sustaining the illusion, collapse when inflows stopped.
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