Patent ID: 11876928
Assignee: RESILIENT PLC
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A fraud detection system comprising:
a call switching unit for receiving an incoming call at a current time;
a call information extraction unit for processing the incoming call to extract call signal information associated with the incoming call including a phone number of the calling party;
an age determination unit for determining an age of the phone number of the calling party, wherein said age is determined by calculating a difference in time between an approximate time when the phone number was activated by a communication provider and the current time; and
a fraud scoring unit for determining a fraud score associated with the incoming call using the determined age, the fraud score indicating a likelihood that the incoming call is from a fraudulent caller;
wherein the call switching unit is configured to forward the incoming call to one of a plurality of different destinations based on the fraud score determined by the fraud scoring unit or wherein the incoming call has a plurality of associated destinations and wherein the call switching unit is configured to select one of the associated destinations based on the determined fraud score.