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That seems really obnoxious for anyone that has your number. Do you just not give your number out?

Because spam calls don't occur because you gave your number out, but because the spammers either farm your number from a "partner" or iterate through numbers.

That’s one class. Another class is if the number was in a credit application or marketing form, then got resold or data-breached.

I only put burner numbers on forms. They start to get called about 90 - 180 days later. Not all, but enough you don’t want to give your cell out.

I avoid giving it out wherever possible. Some forms require phone numbers, in which case I generally try to enter an obviously-incorrect number.

Interesting. Do you state FaceTime/WhatsApp in the twilio message?

Nope, don't want to encourage it.

I like this idea.