It’s certainly not vhat vampires do on a star. Sadly, it’s yet another scam. If you’ve received a call that says the warranty might be up on your car, you’re the recipient of a vishing attempt. Vishing is short for “voice phishing,” and it works just like the online version. It’s a social engineering technique designed to get you to fork over money for a supposed benefit of some sort. According to an article by Marguerite Reardon in CNET today, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has filed lawsuits against two telemarketing firms and another company offering car warranties. Reardon said the organizations collected more than $10 billion after making 1 billion calls since 2007.

Reardon’s article said that these vishers use caller ID spoofing to hide their identities. That means that if you looked at your caller ID, you’d see what appears to be a legitimate number.