Scam

Quality:

Confidence trick - attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their confidence. Article “Scam” in English Wikipedia has 39.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 20 references and 12 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Scam” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Scam”, its content was written by 1034 registered users of English Wikipedia (5973^rd place) and edited by 1951 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2594 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5230 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #761 in October 2002
• Global: #2049 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5695 in March 2010
• Global: #9895 in January 2008

There are 28 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	French (fr) Escroquerie		54.7227
2	English (en) Scam		39.707
3	Simple English (simple) Scam		34.8869
4	Portuguese (pt) Estelionato		32.1954
5	German (de) Scam		30.2662
6	Malay (ms) Kelentong		28.9699
7	Arabic (ar) حيلة الائتمان		28.7182
8	Slovenian (sl) Trik zaupanja		28.603
9	Romanian (ro) Escrocherie		23.869
10	Dutch (nl) Oplichting		23.6313

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Scam		11 604 803
2	Portuguese (pt) Estelionato		1 987 972
3	Spanish (es) Estafa		1 486 772
4	French (fr) Escroquerie		1 044 784
5	Dutch (nl) Oplichting		401 412
6	German (de) Scam		360 665
7	Polish (pl) Machinacja		347 401
8	Italian (it) Scam (truffa)		104 470
9	Indonesian (id) Umbuk		96 254
10	Swedish (sv) Lurendrejeri		86 009

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Scam		38 469
2	Spanish (es) Estafa		4 216
3	French (fr) Escroquerie		3 226
4	Portuguese (pt) Estelionato		2 832
5	German (de) Scam		2 380
6	Dutch (nl) Oplichting		744
7	Simple English (simple) Scam		457
8	Turkish (tr) Dolandırıcılık		399
9	Italian (it) Scam (truffa)		365
10	Romanian (ro) Escrocherie		240

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Scam		1 034
2	French (fr) Escroquerie		222
3	Spanish (es) Estafa		178
4	Dutch (nl) Oplichting		135
5	Italian (it) Scam (truffa)		69
6	German (de) Scam		55
7	Portuguese (pt) Estelionato		49
8	Polish (pl) Machinacja		39
9	Swedish (sv) Lurendrejeri		28
10	Finnish (fi) Huijaus		21

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Scam		3
2	Spanish (es) Estafa		1
3	Finnish (fi) Huijaus		1
4	French (fr) Escroquerie		1
5	Arabic (ar) حيلة الائتمان		0
6	Catalan (ca) Estafa		0
7	Danish (da) Bondefangeri		0
8	German (de) Scam		0
9	Basque (eu) Maula		0
10	Persian (fa) حقه اطمینان		0

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

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