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advance-fee scam

type of fraud where the victim unknowingly engages in one way trade with the perpetrator
Class type of: scam, fraud Q830193

Facts

7 properties

Identity

Instance of
criminological term
More facts +6
Subclass of
scam, fraud[3][4]
Different from
Spanish Prisoner[5]
Image harvest run
pdhero-20261109T032439Z
Image last checked license
CC BY-SA 3.0
Image unavailable reason
no_pd_license
Named after
Nigeria[2]
🏷️ Also known as
en fund transfer scam en Nigerian Prince scam en 419 scam en Nigerian letter fraud en advanced fee fraud en 419 fraud en advance-fee scam ar النصب و الاحتيال النيجيري على الانترنت ar الاحتيال عبر الإنترنت ar النصب و الاحتيال النيجيري على الإنترنت cs Nigerijské dopisy de Nigerianischer Brief de Vorschussbetrug de Scamming de Nigeria Connection de Scam-Mail de Scam de 419 scam de Scam Baiting de Scammer
🔖 Identifiers · 12
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh2006001129
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Scam letter posted within South Africa.jpg ↗
BabelNet ID
15904598n
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/Nigerian-scam
Freebase ID
/m/0ckx9
Harper's tag
advance-fee-fraud
J9U entity ID
987007544598205171
Know Your Meme numeric ID
12475
RationalWiki ID
Advance_fee_fraud
TV Tropes ID
Main/FourOneNineScam
Wikisimpsons article ID
85262
Yale LUX ID
concept/5ead339b-97ec-43ec-9162-e1f2e538c18a

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🔗 Connections
Subclass of 2
fraud, scam
Named after 1
Nigeria
← In opposition to 1
scam baiting
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Summary

advance-fee scam is a criminological term[1].

Related Entities

Nigeria

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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. 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. 8w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → advance-fee-fraud
    "Created claim: Harper's tag: advance-fee-fraud, Matched to advance fee fraud (#289915642) in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Har"
  2. 9w ago · Rose Abrams · 2026-09-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Know Your Meme numeric ID → 12475
    "Created claim: Know Your Meme numeric ID: 12475, Matched to Nigerian Scams (#74367117) in Know Your Meme #mix"
  3. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → criminological term
    Subclass of → scam, fraud
    Named after → Nigeria
    Different from → Spanish Prisoner
    "Changed claim qualifiers: J9U entity ID: 987007544598205171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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