Is that $20 credit for the Verizon outage real? Don’t click a bad link

Last week, Verizon had a massive outage. Millions of wireless customers couldn’t get a signal, instead stuck on emergency service. If you were affected, you definitely knew it—your phone was stuck on “SOS” mode, only capable of calling 911.

Service was eventually restored by the evening, with Verizon then issuing an apology the next day, plus an offer for a $20 service credit. No catch… but you could still get tripped up anyway thanks to scammers looking to trick people into clicking fake refund links.