First of all, you've probably got to start telling each caller to put you on their Don't Call list as they call to bug you (but you knew that, sorry). [i don't know how that interacts with the new national one, though.]

But anyhow, if you're ever on a telespammer's Don't Call list and they call you, I'm not sure that it matters what they say. If they lied, they lied. You should still get a chance to nail them in court.

As the latest gimmick, maybe they found that all the "Re:" spams were paying off so they started doing it with telespamming too?

Meanwhile, _we_ pay extra in order to not be bothered by these people. The phone companies can then sell the telespammers some tools to get around our stuff, so they get to really make out with this whole thing.