Need to shut off Find My iPhone!

I am using my old iPhone 4 for music and am having a lot of error messages pop up every 5 seconds or less. I have found I need to shut off Find My iPhone to fix this, but the old (wrong) email is entered and none of my passwords accepted. Any ideas on how to shut it off?

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