4s asking password for apple id that is not mine

Hi,
Just bought a 4S last night. Everything is working fine except for one thing. The iPhone constantly asks me to put in the password for an apple id that I have never had any association with. I hit cancel, but it just keeps popping up. I have tried erasing that id and typing my id and password in, but it still keeps popping back up. How do I get rid of it.

Was any of your content (music, movies, apps, etc) purchased with another Apple Store account ID? Is this the same as the one that keeps popping up?
If you know the ID:
in iTunes on your computer, sign out of your regular account. Sign in with the other account (the one that keeps coming up), and Authorize that computer to that account.
Sign out of that account, and sign back in with your usual account.
That may take care of it after your next sync with your iPhone.
(Basically, your phone was synced with Account A, but some of your apps/media were purchased for Account B. We want to tell your computer that this account and its media are OK.)

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Firstly, this is not for me but to help a colleague. He left his MacBook Pro in a taxi a few weeks ago and it's since been lost, we tried using 'Find my Mac' through iCloud but it hasn't worked, I presume because the machine hasn't gone online on that user account, as it was password protected?
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