System and method for VoIP honeypot for converged VoIP services

A system comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a computer-readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
• establishing, at a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) honeypot in a network, an occupancy schedule for a virtual user agent associated with the VoIP honeypot, the VoIP honeypot acting as a decoy;
• intercepting an unsolicited incoming VoIP call to the network when the unsolicited incoming VoIP call is addressed to the virtual user agent;
• directing the unsolicited incoming VoIP call to a voice mailbox associated with the VoIP honeypot when the occupancy schedule indicates that the virtual user agent is unavailable when the unsolicited incoming VoIP call is received;
• and
• responding, at the VoIP honeypot, to the unsolicited incoming VoIP call during a call session while tracing the unsolicited incoming VoIP call.

A computer-readable storage device storing instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

• establishing, at a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) honeypot in a network, an occupancy schedule for a virtual user agent associated with the VoIP honeypot the VoIP honeypot acting as a decoy;
• intercepting an unsolicited incoming VoIP call to the network when the unsolicited incoming VoIP call is addressed to the virtual user agent;
• directing the unsolicited incoming VoIP call to a voice mailbox associated with the VoIP honeypot when the occupancy schedule indicates that the virtual user agent is unavailable when the unsolicited incoming VoIP call is received;
• and
• responding, at the VoIP honeypot, to the unsolicited incoming VoIP call during a call session while tracing the unsolicited incoming VoIP call.