System and method for handling unwanted telephone calls

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for handling unwanted telephone calls. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises, intercepting a call request for a call from a terminal device of a calling party to a terminal device of a called party, generating a call recording containing media data transmitted within a connection established by the intercepted call request, determining attributes of the generated call recording, classifying the call as an unwanted call based on the determined attributes, wherein the classification is performed by a classifier trained on previously collected unwanted calls, and wherein the call is classified as unwanted when the attributes belong to an unwanted call class that is known, and handling the call in accordance with the classification of the call, the handling including at least securing information of the call.