[stomachmonkey]

Maybe a little late now but get a throw away number.

I've had the same cell number 25+ years and am very stingy on who I give it to.

I have a google voice number that gets forwarded to my cell.

If I have to give out a number for a form or some other such thing where I can't control who ultimately gets access to it they get the google voice number.

It rings through with the originating number and if I don't recognize it I ignore it, my phone is on vibrate 99% of the time anyway so it's easy to ignore.

If it's a legit call they'll leave a voicemail and that gets sent to me converted to text.

Cold calls never leave a voicemail so if no notification I know it was bogus.

I generally leave the forwarding off anyway as I get the voicemail alerts.