Did you get this text from Verizon about *** $20 credit? This one is real. Here’s what’s going on. So after an outage knocked out service for customers nationwide, Verizon now says it’s going to give *** $20 account credit to affected customers. They’re specifically going to tell you via text when that credit is available. So that’s why so many of you are getting this text message right now. Now that said, we know scammers love to send out phishing texts, so I understand how getting *** text message like this could probably ring some alarm bells for people. It did for *** few of my colleagues. *** lot of us, myself included, are hesitant to click on *** link in *** text message that came from *** random number. Now one way that I can immediately tell this is real is this link down here, vz. Dot com is *** real link that redirects to Verizon.com, which is Verizon’s legitimate website. Realistically, you don’t need to click the link to claim the credit anyway. So when you get this text message, just close out of it. You can go to verizon.com and claim the credit in your account that way. Alternatively, you could use the My Verizon app to claim the credit. It’s going to look something like this inside the app when you go to redeem it. By the way, make sure you do go claim that credit. Verizon told me they’re not going to just automatically add this to everyone’s bill. You have to be the one to go in and claim the credit to get the $20. So be sure you do that once you get the text message saying it’s available to you.
YouTube acknowledges widespread outage, says it is working on a ‘full fix’
Tens of thousands of users reported trouble accessing YouTube on Tuesday night.Related video above: That Verizon $20 credit text is real, here’s how to claim itAccording to Downdetector, which tracks outages, as of 8:13 p.m. ET, more than 300,000 users reported issues on both the website and the app. Over 8,000 users also reported issues with YouTube TV, as of 8:29 p.m. ET. YouTube acknowledged the outage and said it was working to resolve the problem.”We’re aware some of you are having issues accessing YouTube right now. Our teams are aware, and we’ll provide updates as soon as we have them,” the company said.The company later provided an update, explaining that a technical issue caused the outage.”An issue with our recommendations system prevented videos from appearing across surfaces on YouTube (including the homepage, the YouTube app, YouTube Music and YouTube Kids),” YouTube wrote on social media. “The homepage is back, but we’re still working on a full fix – more coming soon!”
Tens of thousands of users reported trouble accessing YouTube on Tuesday night.
Related video above: That Verizon $20 credit text is real, here’s how to claim it
According to Downdetector, which tracks outages, as of 8:13 p.m. ET, more than 300,000 users reported issues on both the website and the app. Over 8,000 users also reported issues with YouTube TV, as of 8:29 p.m. ET.
YouTube acknowledged the outage and said it was working to resolve the problem.
“We’re aware some of you are having issues accessing YouTube right now. Our teams are aware, and we’ll provide updates as soon as we have them,” the company said.
The company later provided an update, explaining that a technical issue caused the outage.
“An issue with our recommendations system prevented videos from appearing across surfaces on YouTube (including the homepage, the YouTube app, YouTube Music and YouTube Kids),” YouTube wrote on social media. “The homepage is back, but we’re still working on a full fix – more coming soon!”
