Sep 24, 2012
This is a criminal extortion ring operating out of India. ABC News released an investigative report on it in June. The FTC has indicted one of its ringleaders for criminal fraud:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/phantom-debt-co ... 16512428&page=1
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/08/bgm.shtm
In the meantime, you are going to have to do whatever you can to protect yourself.
The calls are not originating from within the US. The criminals are utilizing VOIP and spoofing numbers to make it appear otherwise. They probably got your personal identifying information from a website you visited in the past.