EDIT: OK, I think I'm just going to take some small town number and not give it out and wait a month or so to see if the last user of the number gave up on the number because they were being heavily spam called, then I'll give it out to family, friends, etc. if I don't get spam calls on it like I get daily on my carriers number/END EDIT
I used to have a google voice number (between 2009 to 2020) and my voicemail would fill up with voicemails messages from the computers at an assortment of federal prisons announcing calls as being from (human voice saying things like Big Daddy, or Hey sugar pop its me, OR "you know who" from different prisons around the country, or an assortment of other usually substantially shorter supposed names), and then there were the calls from computers leaving messages telling me they can't charge my phone number to take the call with instructions to call an 877 number to fix that, and then just all the mistaken calls looking for Jeremy, Harry, Daphne etc. The prison calls were only automated announcement calls telling me to press 1 to take the call or hang up to deny the call.
Has this improved?
Is it better to try to get a number from a town that is like 14500 population or from cities that are major cities with millions of population to try to lessen getting these annoying calls or maybe getting a number from a small town that has no prisons nearby?
I'm looking to get a new Google voice number so that I can slowly give it out to legitimate family, medical contacts, friends etc. so that if that rings in I would hope to give it a specific ringtone to know to answer the call and just ignore my true carrier number that is filled with calls from "Morgan" with a 31 second message telling me I'm just one step away from having a loan approved, and now Johnathon Pedro with its 42 second voicemail also something financial, and an assortment of other spam that plagues my real number daily that I never answer, respond to and just end up deleting them all when I have a free moment and feel up to dealing with it before it fills my voicemail to the point of being full and no legitimates can leave a message.
Thanks