SIM swap scam

SIM swap scam - a type of account takeover fraud that generally targets a weakness in two-factor authentication, with the second factor being a text message or call placed to a mobile telephone. Article “SIM swap scam” in English Wikipedia has 29.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 23 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in Japanese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “SIM swap scam” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “SIM swap scam”, its content was written by 81 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 109 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 216 times in English Wikipedia and cited 229 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #12843 in May 2021
• Global: #61832 in May 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #54189 in July 2020
• Global: #98674 in December 2023

There are 6 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Japanese (ja) SIMスワップ詐欺		32.6459
2	Chinese (zh) SIM卡交換攻擊		30.791
3	English (en) SIM swap scam		29.6451
4	German (de) SIM-Swapping		29.3657
5	Spanish (es) SIM swapping		25.6401
6	Korean (ko) SIM 스와핑		23.6893

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "SIM swap scam" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) SIM swap scam		1 024 809
2	German (de) SIM-Swapping		84 401
3	Spanish (es) SIM swapping		22 600
4	Japanese (ja) SIMスワップ詐欺		20 400
5	Chinese (zh) SIM卡交換攻擊		8 925
6	Korean (ko) SIM 스와핑		83

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "SIM swap scam" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) SIM swap scam		9 361
2	Japanese (ja) SIMスワップ詐欺		1 930
3	German (de) SIM-Swapping		853
4	Spanish (es) SIM swapping		502
5	Chinese (zh) SIM卡交換攻擊		221
6	Korean (ko) SIM 스와핑		16

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "SIM swap scam" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) SIM swap scam		81
2	German (de) SIM-Swapping		12
3	Japanese (ja) SIMスワップ詐欺		8
4	Spanish (es) SIM swapping		4
5	Chinese (zh) SIM卡交換攻擊		3
6	Korean (ko) SIM 스와핑		1

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "SIM swap scam" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) SIM swap scam		2
2	German (de) SIM-Swapping		0
3	Spanish (es) SIM swapping		0
4	Japanese (ja) SIMスワップ詐欺		0
5	Korean (ko) SIM 스와핑		0
6	Chinese (zh) SIM卡交換攻擊		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "SIM swap scam" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) SIM swap scam		216
2	Japanese (ja) SIMスワップ詐欺		7
3	German (de) SIM-Swapping		3
4	Spanish (es) SIM swapping		2
5	Korean (ko) SIM 스와핑		1
6	Chinese (zh) SIM卡交換攻擊		0

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#	Language	Value
de	German SIM-Swapping
en	English SIM swap scam
es	Spanish SIM swapping
ja	Japanese SIMスワップ詐欺
ko	Korean SIM 스와핑
zh	Chinese SIM卡交換攻擊

Best Rank

English: #54189 07.2020

Global: #98674 12.2023

Best Rank

English: #12843 05.2021

Global: #61832 05.2021

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