When Columbus came to the New World, he would disembark on an island, hide somewhere in the bushes, and mumble the legal formula of taking possession of the land in the name of the Spanish Crown. After that, the land would be considered Spain’s and the indigenous people who’d try to defend it would be considered treasonous. I don’t need to tell you what was done to them, do I?
This is exactly how the Russian-speaking scammers in Canada act. They sell tickets to what is supposed to be a meeting of entrepreneurs. They only accept credit card payments and insist that every attendee provide a separate credit card number. After everybody gets sufficiently drunk on free alcohol at the meeting, they mumble in passing that money will continue to be withdrawn from the credit cards until the attendees somehow signal their wish for the payments to stop. The scammers don’t belong to any specific company, don’t have a website, and are impossible to be located, so good luck finding them to communicate your wishes. When they disappear with your credit card number, you can just sit there and hope to God they don’t hand it over to their gangster brothers back in Russia.
People who believe it would be great to live in the era of wild capitalism are very stupid. I experienced the 100% unregulated capitalism, and our FSU countries are still living it. Let me tell you, it’s a very bad way to live. It’s scary, it’s dangerous, and unless you are a ruthless bandit, you don’t stand half a chance.