How to cancel anything my husband may have done on a call from a solicitor/scam artist?

As others said put a credit freeze on your accounts with Experian and others right away. My mom must be on every scammers list so I sent her phone to ring only a couple of times so she can’t pick up and it will go to voicemail. Easy to call back real calls.

And notify your financial institutions.

As others have said: Put a freeze on at all three credit bureaus. Its free to do now. You could turn the ringer off or have all calls forwarded to your cell phone. You can pull your credit report from all three agencies . it is free once a year. I would wait a few months for any activity to appear on your report.

My LO I care for still has AT&T landline. We use their "Call Screening" service that only allows approved numbers to be received. It's limited to 20 numbers but it works in her case. If this was the case in my own home it would be ok bc my mobile is my primary contact number. Truly helpful as she had begun giving out her CC number donating to whomever called.

write credit bureaus and have a block placed on to prevent anyone from establishing anything in his name. Fraud alerts as well with all three major credit bureaus . I believe they are Equifax, Transunion and Experian. SSA should also be notified immediately!

I had the very same thing happen to me when my husband was in the middle stage of Alzheimer's. I can home from lunch and he was on the phone with a scammer saying " This person just want to help me". I started screaming " hang up". My husband started saying I don't trust people. Because my husband did not follow through the scammer caused our computer to crash. I had to get Technical Support to clean up the mess. My husband is now in the last stages of Alzheimer's and can not use his hands at all. It's almost time for Hospice. This phase you are going through will pass but the next stage will bring (DIFFERENT) problems. Those problems you have now are temporary.

My parents switched their existing number from regular land line to a VOIP service (they use viatalk). The VOIP service offers lots of special features like call authentication where any unknown caller has to enter a 3 digit code for the phone to ring in the house. This allows us to call them directly, but it stopped the scam calls.

Don't worry Here, dear. I'm sure it is Okay. Maybe they want to Send him another Credit Card in his Name, He may have Very Good Credit.

I have the canary cameras. I can check in on my dad and also talk to him. No landline needed. I got him a cell phone in case I need to call him. I watch him on camera to know when he is near his phone before I call, which he usually is.

Turn ringer OFF when you leave or hide receiver. For the current issue put a red flag on his ssn. You may have to wait to see what he did then deal with it.

Block the number on his phone. Turn the number she called him from over to the FTC and make sure your phone number is on the DNC list. Hope this helps.

I'm so grateful you had the cameras and could discover this! Though the credit agencies should be open for you now, anyone can submit it via internet at all hours. See BarbBrooklyn's post above for her thoughtful post that includes their websites.

For my mom, once the scum scammers discovered Mom was an easy target, I found out they were calling her every ten minutes! I ended up immediately changing her phone number that she'd had for 40 years and making it unlisted.

Also, does he have access to his or your credit cards and both of your monetary accounts? You may want to consider changing those card numbers and making them inaccessible to him. For the monetary accounts, Mom had found a way to travel to the bank (this was when we discovered she required round-the-clock care) was in the process of withdrawing money to send the scum scammers. A bank teller, who knew Mom, stopped her and informed her they were scammers.

In addition to all the other good advise above, you can sign you both up for Credit Karma. It's free and you can check both your credit reports. Every month, I pulled up Mom's account and studied for anything untoward--and mine.

Besides freezing your credit, you should also get Identity Theft Protection. I use the company that Dave Ramsey recommends, Zander Insurance. He uses it for his family and everyone in his company. In case you don't know who Dave Ramsey is, he is a very popular financial adviser and has the 3rd most listened to radio show. He only recommends ethical businesses on his show and website. So I trust him.

It costs me $15/month for my whole family and it covers ALL types of losses related to identity theft.

I wonder if there is a way to block incoming calls but be able to use the phone for emergencies? Does your friend come in daily to check on husband? Since you have the ability to check on him, can you unplug your landline while at work?

That is scary! I would do as Barb suggest. You can’t overlook this. Those people prey on the vulnerable. The social security number is very serious. Identify theft can wreck a person’s life.

I guess they are all closed for the evening. Good idea, I’ll try again tomorrow, thanks.

Experian: 
1-800-397-3742 
www.experian.com
Equifax: 
1-800-685-1111 
www.equifax.com
TransUnion: 
1-800-888-4213 
www.transunion.com

Call all three credit bureaus and freeze his credit.