Patent ID: 8379816

Claim:
A method for managing a phishing call for a telecommunication enabled-device, comprising: receiving an incoming telecommunication request for the telecommunication enabled-device; comparing a unique identification associated with said incoming telecommunication request against a set of contact lists; if said unique identification is not found on said set of contact lists, activating a delay timer, said delay timer being configured to prevent a set of user notification components from being triggered for a delay period; performing a connection analysis to determine status of said incoming telecommunication request; and if said incoming telecommunication request is terminated during said delay period, updating a phishing call log with data about said incoming telecommunication request, wherein said updating of said phishing call log occurs without said set of user notification components being triggered, responsive to said incoming telecommunication request, during or subsequent to said updating, wherein said managing of said phishing call is performed by a phishing call filtering module that includes at least a frontier module, said delay timer, a status check module, and said phishing call log, and wherein said comparing said unique identification associated with said incoming telecommunication request to said set of contact lists is managed by said frontier module, wherein said frontier module is configured to be coupled to an application programming interface (API) of an operating system of a telecommunication-enabled device receiving said incoming telecommunication request.