From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:14:03 +0100, "Carlos   
   E.R."  wrote:   
      
   >On 2026-01-27 10:06, Anssi Saari wrote:   
   >> micky  writes:   
   >>   
   >>> He could go back to the phone. Neither phone has a sim but they both caa   
   >>> use wifi.   So I'd have to do something in both places.  He doesn't get   
   >>> out of the mental ward until Wed night or Thursday, only 3 days.   
   >>   
   >> Must you give the phone back to him? And even if you do, what if you   
      
   I don't know if I'd have nerve enough to do that. He does have normal   
   people he chats with.  I thought of blocking the troublemakers, but then   
   a big green oval shows up at the bottom which says "Unblock".  He's have   
   to be blind not to notice it.  Then I thought of blocking them and   
   deleting the chats.   There is a list of numbers one has blocked and I   
   didn't see any way to empty the list. And I'm taking my cues from his   
   parents, who agreed it would be risking my friendship with him if I did   
   that.  And he needs friends. He's turned against some other people who,   
   I guess, in one way or another, told him he was being suckered, being   
   naive, being a fool or whatever they said.   
      
    I may regret not doing some of these things if the plan to convince him   
   he's wrong fails.   
      
   >> delete his Whatsapp account and feign ignorance of what's happened?   
   >> Assuming his chats are mostly with those scammers. He'd need to create a   
   >> new account with a different phone number and might not be able to find   
   >> those scammers and they might not find him, at least not right away.   
   >   
   >A deleted WhatsApp account can be created again from scratch on the same   
   >number, I believe. Maybe putt a password to it.   
   >   
   >If the lawyer says that they did not do this, and tell him this, he   
   >might listen.   
      
   I would hope so.  She is attractive and has a very distinctive look and   
   if she makes a video call with him (and maybe me too at the same time)   
   even I could tell that it's her picture next to the phoney chat, and if   
   she says I never sent those things, he ought to believe her.   
   >   
   >>   
   >> Then again, if they found him on Facebook, you might have to delete his   
   >> Facebook account too. That might also contain more important stuff like   
   >> photos. Or maybe change his password so he can't get on there. Might   
   >> work for a delay.   
      
   I don't even know what name/title he used for FB, and not the password   
   either. .... Well that was easy.  He used his own name including his   
   middle name, and his own picture, but there is almost nothing else   
   there. Only that one photo and a nickname he says he has.  Nothing else.   
   He has 250 followers.  I don't understand what they are following.   
      
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