Communications Authority (CA)

To raise students' alertness against phone and SMS scams, CA is organising the "Let's Join Hands to Fight Phone Scams" Reel-making Competition. All secondary school students in Hong Kong are welcome to participate in teams.

• Secondary 1 to 6 students
  Each school may nominate a maximum of two teams for the competition, each consisting of two to four students. Each participating team is allowed to submit only one entry.

Theme: Preventing phone and SMS scams

Duration: 45 seconds to 1 minute

Language: Chinese or English; subtitles are required

Resolution: 1080p (HD): 1920 x 1080

Format: mp4

Proposed aspect ratio: 16:9

Presentation style: No restrictions

Other requirements:

• Reels involving role play must be performed by students from the participating schools.
• Each entry must include a slogan / promotional tagline of no more than 20 Chinese characters / English words about anti-phone and/or SMS scams.
• Participating teams must choose one or more of the following anti-phone and SMS scam messages as the theme of their reels:
  • When receiving an unknown call, hang up immediately and do not respond by pressing any key
  • Ignore unknown calls or SMS messages
  • Verify the identity of the caller or sender of SMS messages through official channels
  • Do not easily trust the alleged identity of the caller
  • Do not easily trust the content of SMS messages
  • Do not reply SMS messages or click any hyperlink(s) therein hastily
  • Do not disclose personal information casually
  • Do not transfer money hastily
  • Report suspicious calls or SMS messages to the Police
  • Use call filtering services and the Police’s anti-scam tools
• The reels may include the image of "CommBo" (as shown below), the mascot of the Office of the Communications Authority (OFCA). The image of "CommBo" can be downloaded and printed by clicking here .
  
• Participants may visit the following webpage for more anti-phone scam information from OFCA:
  www.ofca.gov.hk/phonescams

1. Participating teams must warrant that the submitted entries are their original work which have never been publicly broadcast or entered any competitions.
2. Participating teams must ensure that the content of their entries does not infringe on the privacy and intellectual property ^Note rights of any other person. Participating teams shall be liable for any infringement of privacy and intellectual property ^Note rights. Entries containing any materials generated by AI shall be clearly stated in the reel by using subtitles.
3. Each participating team is allowed to submit only one entry. Teams which submit multiple or incomplete entries, or entries not meeting the requirements, will be disqualified, and all submitted entries will be deemed invalid.
4. Each entry must include a slogan / promotional tagline of no more than 20 Chinese characters / English words (excluding punctuation marks).
5. Immediate family members of CA's members and OFCA's employees are not allowed to participate in the competition.
6. Participating teams must ensure that their entries do not contain any materials that are obscene, violent, pornographic, defamatory, indecent, disparaging, discriminatory, controversial or inappropriate, and that they do not violate the laws of the HKSAR and constitute or cause danger to national security, otherwise the entries will be disqualified. CA shall have the right of final decision in disqualifying entries.
7. Participating teams must warrant that all information provided or submitted is true and correct. CA shall have no liability whatsoever in the event that it is unable to notify the participating teams due to the provision of incorrect information, which may subsequently affect their eligibility to enter the competition or receive award.
8. All entries cannot be modified after submission and will not be returned.
9. CA shall not be held responsible for the participating teams' failure in submitting entries, and shall assume no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, failure, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft, destruction or unauthorised access to or alteration of the entries.
10. CA shall have no liability whatsoever for any injuries, losses or damages of any kind which may be suffered by the participant in relation to the acceptance, possession or use of the prizes.
11. Prizes cannot be exchanged for cash.
12. Participating teams agree that CA and OFCA have the right to publish the winning entries and personal particulars of the winners (such as names, names of school, classes and photos) in any media for publicity purpose.
13. CA reserves the right to use, modify, translate, adapt, duplicate and disseminate to any media channel(s) all or part of the content of the submitted entries without prior consent from the schools and participating teams.
14. Participating teams must agree to transfer absolutely to CA all the intellectual property ^Note rights arising from the work created for the purpose of joining the competition at no cost.
15. Upon invitation by the organiser, winners are obliged to participate in filming and interviews, the content of which may be used to create promotional videos and be produced in text format for uploading to the competition website and other online video platforms for public broadcasting or for publication via print, digital and social media, and be used by the organiser or other government agencies without further notice to the schools and participating teams.
16. Decisions made by the organiser’s judging panel shall be final. Any objection to the results and awards of the competition will not be accepted.
17. CA reserves the right to amend the rules, terms and conditions, contents and relevant arrangements of the competition at any time without prior notice to the participating teams. CA also reserves the right of final decision and interpretation regarding the rules of this competition.

Note: "Intellectual property" generally refers to a group of separate intangible property rights. These include trade marks, patents, copyright, designs, plant varieties and the layout design of integrated circuits. Intellectual property is important to our daily lives — the brand-name logos on clothes, articles in the newspapers, TV programmes, pop songs, movies and fashion designs all have a strong connection with intellectual property.

Relevance: Relevance of the content to the theme 30%
Creativity: Innovation, originality and novel presentation 30%
Production: Composition, aesthetics and audio-visual appeal 20%
Editing: Pacing and editing of the reel 20%

Step 1: Upload the entry to a selected platform (such as Google Drive, Dropbox or YouTube). Please make sure that anyone with the corresponding link to the uploaded file can access its content, but there is no need to set the viewing rights to "public".

Step 2: Complete the entry form and email it together with the link to the uploaded entry to competition@ofca.gov.hk.

• Champion (1) — Certificate and HK$3,000 gift voucher
• First Runner-up (1) — Certificate and HK$2,000 gift voucher
• Second Runner-up (1) — Certificate and HK$1,000 gift voucher
• Merit Award (7) —Certificate and HK$500 gift voucher
• Most Popular Award (2) — Certificate and HK$800 gift voucher

On or before 7 December 2026 at noon. The date and time of OFCA's receipt of the entry form and the successful upload of the entry shall prevail. Late submissions will not be accepted. Please allow sufficient time to upload your entry.

The 10 shortlisted entries will be posted on OFCA's social media platforms from 18 to 22 January 2027 for public voting. Two entries receiving the highest and second highest number of votes will be granted the "Most Popular Award".

• The competition results will be announced on OFCA's website at www.ofca.gov.hk. Winners will be notified individually.
• The prize presentation ceremony is tentatively scheduled to be held in the first quarter of 2027, with details to be announced in due course. Winners must attend the ceremony in person or by appointing a representative.
• Winning entries will have the opportunity to be displayed on OFCA’s website and social media platforms for public viewing.

• Let's Join Hands to Fight Phone Scams" Reel-making Competition Poster

• Telephone: 2961 6276 or 2961 6750
• Email: competition@ofca.gov.hk