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Hi, I am in the same boat as you. My husband was scheduling appointments for unnecessary services (home inspections, twice), and getting just a ton of spam and potential scam on his phone. He doesn't remember doing it, so it's embarrassing when folks show up at our home for no reason.
So, I deleted his Facebook app on his phone, because that is how he was communicating with vendors (even though I monitor his email, texts and voice-mail, and ask him to put any call he receives on speaker (I had to deal with dental insurance call this morning that he'd requested, and we already have insurance).
It's a nightmare, and I can read the writing on the wall; someday we'll have to give up his phone because of problems it's causing. I hate to set us up for fraud, so scary.
Good luck to you! 🪷

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@judimahoney I'm sure you've done this Judy, but just freeze your credit with the three credit bureaus, and put on fraud alerts. I had to do it, my husband had so much scam on his phone and PC and was clicking here and there. I mentioned it awhile back on this site, but he was hacked into in 2024. They got into our bank accounts, credited card accounts, were setting up payments to a fictious bank called "green bank" and tried to draw from our bank accounts. Whoever, got access to his PC, was changing the outlook commands, to where he wasn't getting any email on his phone, as they took over his PC. I can't even begin to tell you how nervewracking that was, so I froze everything with the three credit bureaus. We had to cancel everything and get new accounts, new credit cards, etc.
I'm sure you know this, but it's worth sharing again. Because when the PC guy showed up for a month, he could see on the server all the sign ons from someone or a group of people that had hacked in. They showed different sign on location from all over, but as the PC guy said, it could have been the same person. I worry every day, when I see my husband on the PC and the phone, which he's on all the time. Mine isn't on Facebook, but he's up there clicking on everything else anyway. Best, Karla