> second phone number for all my online accounts and 2FA stuff and anything impersonal that is likely to result in getting spam texts and phone calls down the l

> second phone number for all my online accounts and 2FA stuff and anything impersonal that is likely to result in getting spam texts and phone calls down the line. Unfortunately, that will not stop spam texts nor spam calls to the "friends and family" number. The reason why is that while a subset of phone spammers target specific numbers, a huge majority simply "dial all numbers". I.e., if they are spamming texting a "car warranty expiring" text, they will simply send the same text to all numbers within a given exchange. If they happen to be targeting 202-555-xxxx they will simply send a text to every number 0000 through 9999, because it costs almost nothing to do so. The same goes with the robo-dialing boiler rooms, the computer driving the operation will simply dial every number 0000 through 9999 on a given exchange, and any that actually get picked up get the 'robo recording', and the very few who "press 7 for more info" then get connected to a human who then tries to extract whatever it is they are really after.