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Lol, like that would stop the spam.
I've found whenever you get a new number, it was probably abandoned by someone with credit issues and/or stalkers.
I think the only thing you can do is put your phone on silent for everything except whitelisted numbers and have it go directly to voicemail for everyone else.
You can sometimes get a fresh number. I got lucky with mine (keep my junk phone for club-cards and the like)
It actually will stop it eventually. I have a work number on GV as well and it receives zero non work calls. Similar with the direct number on both work and personal phone. Work phone gets calls every so often about real-estate I definitely don't have anything to do with and my personal line gets zero spam.
Yes, porting a number into GV and letting it sit along with leaving it on don't ring at all anywhere will eventually clear that number up. It may never be zero calls but if you keep answering it the calls will keep coming.
If you want a better chance of a clean number, look for area codes that are more recently allocated, this will make it more likely that others haven't used it before you. You'll probably have a decent chance by grabbing a number from GV directly or through number barn or the like. Find a number that has been sitting around for awhile and you'll probably be fine.