Phone spam

What is up with all the new form of phone spam. Before it used to be a human calling you with a script to read. For the past couple of weeks I've been getting new type of phone spam where it is a recording saying if you accept their message to press "1" or if you don't want to get called back press "2" or "9". Of course, they don't tell you which option is which until the end of the message. One time I pressed the key to remove me off of their list, but it didn't work. Getting called at 2am my time to hear about how I can refinance a home mortgage that I don't have or a receive a free home security system from Home Depot is about the most frustrating thing. Actually I take that back, the most frustrating thing was when I kept receiving phone calls in the middle of the night from India asking for "Manoj". I told the guy he had the wrong number the first couple of times and there was no one by that name here. A week later he calls again and before he could say anything I interrupt saying "You called before and I said you had the wrong number". He insists he never called and then I said "You wanted to speak to Manoj right?" and he said "Yes" and I told him if he could update his records to stop calling me and he hung up. He ended up calling one last time a couple of weeks ago and we went through the same exchange. Luckily, I think the message has finally gotten to his thick skull as I haven't heard from him since.