It's a scam.

I would suggest he change his password, block them and delete it.

Scam, scam, scam. Never click on anything like that.

My son is a cyber security expert. NEVER click on a link like this. If he suspects that it is possible, log into Google directly and check that way. It is most likely a scam however.

That's what I thought. He is terrible at not paying attention to things. I swear I want to take his phone away from him and lock it up and allow him to use it only when supervised LOL!

I'll tell him when he gets home from work later, I'll probably have to figure out how to delete it for him. I don't use email on my phone so I'm not well-versed on how to do that -- I'll take any help you can give me...

The irony in all this is we were JUST talking about burglary this morning and how he thinks it isn't safe to keep passport in the fireproof case we have (grab-n-go if a fire...). Uh....yes dear you're basically handing someone keys to the kingdom with all the sh*t you click on and you're worried about a passport...AAARGHH!!

You can scan your passport and save it in a safe place in the Cloud, in case yours gets stolen.

@mxk3 z5b_MI ....sounds frustrating. But he does mean well....

mxk3, my sister is much like your DH, and it frustrates me to no end. She has ruined computers from clicking on everything that pops up on her screen, and still continues to do it. Her son, and I have admonished her about doing it repeatedly, and she says she won't do it anymore, but she still does. Her debit card has been hacked five times in less than two years, and she has no idea why. We are at our wits end with this woman and don't know what. I hope you have better luck with your DH.

I tried to delete the Edison from his phone last night -- for the life of me I couldn't figure it out, it wasn't showing up as an app that could be deleted under third-party apps, but every time I clicked on Gmail it popped up with an Edison sign-in page. I did figure out why DH clicked on it -- he clicked the Gmail app to sign into GMail and Edison popped up..he got the "YOU HAVE TO READ IT" lecture from me, but in fairness it really did look like he was signing into Gmail. And this is *after* I revoked its priviledges on the GMail security alert.

So, I just deleted the entire Gmail app from his phone and then I couldn't get it to re-download. ARRGH! After about an hour of fiddling and frustration and getting b*tchy with him, I told him I had enough, go ask your friends how to get it back. LOL! (surprisingly he wasn't mad, I think he knew this is kind of a mess).

But WTH is up this Edison? With his luck, he'll get the Gmail app back and along with it the Edison. Which I think is exactly what's going to happen -- when I went directly to Gmail sign-in through the web browser, Edison sign-in still popped up, I just couldn't figure out any way around it, but what was just strange is it wasn't showing up anywhere in the phone as something that could be deleted. If that's the case, he's going to have to go the phone store and have them figure it out.

Looks like it's a legit app...

https://www.edisonmail.com/

Of course the company itself is going to spin itself as legit...

Why would a "legit" app insert itself into one's phone so sneakily that one can't figure out how to delete it? As in not showing up on third-party apps in the phone's system? Why would Gmail re-route automatically to Edison with no other obvious way in? Even after deleting the Gmail app? Nope, something's up with Edison and it needs to get gone.

Have you tried contacting GMail support (if it exists?)

Perhaps it wasn't as sneaky as you're assuming. If your husband is that inept on his phone, how can you be sure he didn't inadvertently click something to make it happen?

"...how can you be sure he didn't inadvertently click something to make it happen?"

He did -- I thought I made that clear. The problem now is I can't get it off the phone and he can't sign in to GMail without it re-routing to Edison -- that is where I take issue and think something's shady.

He's going to have to either go to the phone store or contact GMail about it.

Oops - sorry I missed that.

Skimming their site, it looks like they're offering enhanced security features that cross platforms and apps, so not necessarily a bad thing.

Is this on Android or IOS?

If it's an app, as they say it is, you should be able to uninstall it like you would any other app.