Internet are full of scam, largely because there is little to no consequence of their action.
Yes, the place where is the most freedom is the internet probably, there are almost no restriction , people are almost free to do anything in most countries some of the countries do have pretty big restriction but in general internet is full of everything and mostly a lot of scams, It's pretty easy for hackers to create a program to take money from unexperience people who knows the internet just as a tool to search or buy something by clicking few buttons and nothing more. So you just need to be careful knowing that and you wont get into scammers hands.