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Charles Ponzi claimed to buy discounted international reply coupons in other countries and then sell them at face value in the United States, essentially making money through arbitrage; however, the reality was that he was paying earlier investors with money from new investors, creating a fraudulent scheme now known as a "Ponzi scheme." International reply coupons, which were essentially prepaid postage stamps that could be purchased cheaply in certain countries.