[fortran77]

This is easily proved wrong. If I get a brand new cell phone number, I still get calls for complete scams even though that number, as far as I've owned it, never opted in to anything.

[billpg]

Are numbers ever really brand new, as in you are the first to ever have that number?

[fortran77]

Probably not, but that's not the problem of the person with the new number.