Method for hinting fraud calls and communication terminal

The embodiment of the invention discloses a method for hinting fraud calls and a communication terminal. The method for hinting the fraud calls comprises the steps that a short message of a target phone number is received; whether the target phone number meets a preset condition is determined; if the preset condition is met, keywords contained in the short message are obtained, and matching is conducted on the keywords and sample keywords in a keyword bank; if the success matching number exceeds a preset threshold value, a fraud alarm hinting that the target phone number is a suspected fraud phone number is sent out. The communication terminal can conveniently lower the probability that a user is tricked can be reduced by adopting the method.