Advance-fee scam

Advance-fee scam - type of fraud where the victim unknowingly engages in one way trade with the perpetrator. Article “Advance-fee scam” in Simple English Wikipedia has 72.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 50 references and 8 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Advance-fee scam”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2404 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 6 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1105 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #19482 in August 2024
• Global: #1914 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #41804 in January 2025
• Global: #1243 in November 2012

There are 33 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	English (en) Advance-fee scam		72.9857
2	Simple English (simple) Advance-fee scam		72.8522
3	Thai (th) สแกมจ่ายเงินล่วงหน้า		69.8956
4	Finnish (fi) Nigerialaiskirjeet		55.5544
5	German (de) Vorschussbetrug		42.3073
6	French (fr) Fraude 4-1-9		42.0882
7	Italian (it) Truffa alla nigeriana		35.272
8	Vietnamese (vi) Lừa đảo tài chính quốc tế		34.1063
9	Chinese (zh) 預付費詐騙		33.1407
10	Slovenian (sl) Nigerijska prevara		32.3126

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Advance-fee scam" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Advance-fee scam		8 280 507
2	German (de) Vorschussbetrug		1 202 801
3	Russian (ru) Нигерийские письма		1 086 107
4	Spanish (es) Estafa nigeriana		1 054 927
5	Japanese (ja) ナイジェリアの手紙		674 733
6	French (fr) Fraude 4-1-9		609 250
7	Italian (it) Truffa alla nigeriana		421 589
8	Polish (pl) Nigeryjski szwindel		277 985
9	Dutch (nl) Nigeriaanse oplichting		241 056
10	Chinese (zh) 預付費詐騙		204 957

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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 "Advance-fee scam" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Advance-fee scam		17 317
2	Russian (ru) Нигерийские письма		2 010
3	Spanish (es) Estafa nigeriana		1 245
4	Japanese (ja) ナイジェリアの手紙		1 152
5	German (de) Vorschussbetrug		714
6	French (fr) Fraude 4-1-9		638
7	Italian (it) Truffa alla nigeriana		588
8	Chinese (zh) 預付費詐騙		392
9	Polish (pl) Nigeryjski szwindel		335
10	Hebrew (he) העוקץ הניגרי		332

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

Language versions of the article "Advance-fee 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) Advance-fee scam		1 123
2	German (de) Vorschussbetrug		238
3	French (fr) Fraude 4-1-9		194
4	Italian (it) Truffa alla nigeriana		109
5	Russian (ru) Нигерийские письма		106
6	Dutch (nl) Nigeriaanse oplichting		91
7	Spanish (es) Estafa nigeriana		87
8	Hebrew (he) העוקץ הניגרי		48
9	Finnish (fi) Nigerialaiskirjeet		46
10	Norwegian (no) Nigeriabrev		38

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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 "Advance-fee scam" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Advance-fee scam		3
2	Persian (fa) دسیسه اخذ پیش‌پرداخت		1
3	Dutch (nl) Nigeriaanse oplichting		1
4	Thai (th) สแกมจ่ายเงินล่วงหน้า		1
5	Vietnamese (vi) Lừa đảo tài chính quốc tế		1
6	Arabic (ar) احتيال الدفع المسبق		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Nigeriya fırıldağı		0
8	Catalan (ca) Scam		0
9	Czech (cs) Nigerijské dopisy		0
10	German (de) Vorschussbetrug		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 "Advance-fee scam" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Advance-fee scam		590
2	Finnish (fi) Nigerialaiskirjeet		99
3	French (fr) Fraude 4-1-9		87
4	German (de) Vorschussbetrug		48
5	Spanish (es) Estafa nigeriana		26
6	Japanese (ja) ナイジェリアの手紙		25
7	Dutch (nl) Nigeriaanse oplichting		22
8	Chinese (zh) 預付費詐騙		20
9	Swedish (sv) Nigeriabrev		19
10	Hebrew (he) העוקץ הניגרי		18

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic احتيال الدفع المسبق
az	Azerbaijani Nigeriya fırıldağı
ca	Catalan Scam
cs	Czech Nigerijské dopisy
de	German Vorschussbetrug
en	English Advance-fee scam
eo	Esperanto Antaŭpaga fraŭdo
es	Spanish Estafa nigeriana
fa	Persian دسیسه اخذ پیش‌پرداخت
fi	Finnish Nigerialaiskirjeet
fr	French Fraude 4-1-9
he	Hebrew העוקץ הניגרי
hr	Croatian Nigerijska prijevara
hu	Hungarian Nigériai levelek
hy	Armenian Համացանցային խարդախություն
it	Italian Truffa alla nigeriana
ja	Japanese ナイジェリアの手紙
ko	Korean 선불 사기
nl	Dutch Nigeriaanse oplichting
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Svindelbrev
no	Norwegian Nigeriabrev
pl	Polish Nigeryjski szwindel
pt	Portuguese Fraude nigeriana
ru	Russian Нигерийские письма
simple	Simple English Advance-fee scam
sl	Slovenian Nigerijska prevara
sv	Swedish Nigeriabrev
th	Thai สแกมจ่ายเงินล่วงหน้า
tr	Turkish Ön ödeme dolandırıcılığı
uk	Ukrainian Нігерійські листи
vi	Vietnamese Lừa đảo tài chính quốc tế
zh	Chinese 預付費詐騙
zhminnan	Min Nan Nigeria chà-khi

Best Rank

Simple English: #41804 01.2025

Global: #1243 11.2012

Best Rank

Simple English: #19482 08.2024

Global: #1914 07.2002

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