I don't have a fatalistic attitude but a realistic one.
I know I have not been doing this long, but I have yet to get a real landline number. I guess 75% are mobile numbers, the rest are with held. On the withheld ones when I ask for a number I either get given a wrong number or another mobile.
You may think so, and that may be your experience but it doesn't match any reality I can relate to and that's after almost twelve years working. Of course somebody determined to hurt you will, but that doesn't mean it's pointless trying to make it as difficult, inconvenient and unattractive a prospect as possible for them to do so - the less easy target you make yourself, the more likely they are not to bother with you and move on to somebody who doesn't bother taking any proper precautions to protect themselves.
As for not getting a landline number, your other post says that most of your bookings take place in hotels where the number is available to all, so I don't understand - you just ring and have yourself put through to the room? Either way, if somebody doesn't have any proof that they're at the address they're claiming to be then the easiest thing to do is just refuse the booking and take one from somebody who does. And answering withhelds is pretty much the road to madness (as you've found already, by the sound of things).
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