I live in UAE, and everyone here has a pretty sophisticated government ID, linked to a smartphone app, that performs single sign-on for all government services.

I live in UAE, and everyone here has a pretty sophisticated government ID, linked to a smartphone app, that performs single sign-on for all government services. Your ID number is not especially secret. Anyway, a frequent scam here is that someone calls you claiming to be the police or the government, and then generates a SSO request on your phone via trying to sign in to a government website using your EID number, and the request certainly adds a layer of seeming authenticity