The United States has filed lawsuits against five companies and three individuals allegedly responsible for making millions of fake robocalls to American consumers from overseas, mostly from India.<br />''<br />''Seeking a restraining order against such call centres and robocalls, the Department of Justice in its class action lawsuit alleged that the companies were warned many times not to carry fraudulent robocalls, yet they continued to do so and facilitated foreign-based fraud schemes targeting Americans.<br />''<br />''Department of Justice said that the calls, most of which originated in India, led to massive financial losses to elderly and vulnerable victims across the nation.<br />''<br />''According to federal prosecutors, Americans have experienced a deluge of robocalls over the past several years. Many of the robocalls originated from abroad.<br />''<br />''Recently, foreign fraudsters have used robocalls to impersonate government investigators and to provide Americans with alarming messages. The calls facilitated by the defendants falsely threatened victims with a variety of catastrophic government actions, including termination of social security benefits, imminent arrest for alleged tax fraud and deportation for supposed failure to fill out immigration forms correctly.<br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">The department said that these alarming messages and claims are a lie, designed to scare the call recipient into paying large sums of money.</span><br />