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Hong Kong Hospital Authority adopts new caller IDs to combat scam fears

Hong Kong's Hospital Authority is implementing new caller ID prefixes, 18285 and 18286, to help the public identify legitimate calls. This initiative aims to reduce the number of missed calls due to concerns about scams and telemarketing. The phased rollout will assign specific seven-digit numbers to different units within the authority, encouraging the public to save these numbers for easier identification of important calls. AI

RANK_REASON This is a local government initiative to improve public trust in official communications, not a core AI development.

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Hong Kong Hospital Authority adopts new caller IDs to combat scam fears

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Danny Mok ·

    Hospital body to use 18285 and 18286 phone numbers to help people identify calls

    Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority will begin using standard prefixes for telephone numbers to make it easier for people to recognise its calls rather than avoiding them due to scammers and advertisers. Starting next Tuesday, all phone calls made by the authority, which oversees publ…