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advance-fee scam

type of fraud where the victim unknowingly engages in one way trade with the perpetrator
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advance-fee scam

Summary

advance-fee scam is a criminological term[1]. It draws 1,481 Wikipedia views per month (criminological_term category, ranking #1 of 3).[2]

Key Facts

  • advance-fee scam's instance of is recorded as criminological term[3].
  • Nigeria is named after advance-fee scam[4].
  • advance-fee scam is a type of scam[5].
  • advance-fee scam is a type of fraud[6].
  • advance-fee scam's Commons category is recorded as 419 scams[7].
  • advance-fee scam's different from is recorded as Spanish Prisoner[8].

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Designation and Status

advance-fee scam's instance of is recorded as criminological term[3].

History and Context

Nigeria is named after advance-fee scam[4].

Why It Matters

advance-fee scam draws 1,481 Wikipedia views per month (criminological_term category, ranking #1 of 3).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] It is known by 73 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

Related Entities

Nigeria

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 9d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → advance-fee-fraud
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: advance-fee-fraud, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289915642|advance fee fraud (#289915642)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Har"
  2. 12d ago · Rose Abrams · 2026-09-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Know your meme numeric id → 12475
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P6760]]: 12475, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/74367117|Nigerian Scams (#74367117)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/2417|Know Your Meme]] #mix"
  3. 16w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → criminological term
    Subclass of → —
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → scam, fraud
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007544598205171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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