The invention discloses a telephone verification method and a system. The method comprises steps that, A, when an incoming call of a strange number needing verification is identified, a verification question in a preset short message format is sent to an opposite side; B, when a reply short message is received, verification on the reply short message is carried out, if passes, access to a user is carried out, and the incoming call waits a user to answer, if no reply short message is received or verification does not pass, the incoming call of the strange number is hang up or stopped. According to the method and the system, when the incoming call of the strange number occurs, the verification question is automatically sent to the opposite side, when the question is wrongly answered or is not answered, the incoming call is hang up or stopped, when the verification question is correctly answered by the opposite side, whether the incoming call is answered is determined by the user, and thereby crank calls can be more accurately stopped.