properties of equality: real vs. complex numbers

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When researching the reflexive, symmetric, transitive, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and substitution properties of equality, the sources I found said they were true "for all real numbers". Are any or all of them not true for complex numbers? i.e., is the "for all real numbers" a necessary caveat, or should it say "for all numbers"? Also, I know the reflexive property applies to mathematical objects as well (any mathematical object is congruent to itself). Do the other properties of equality apply to all mathematical objects as well?