[ale] PayPal "Man in the Middle" attack?

[leam hall]

Log back into Paypal, make sure you have the lock up top, and see if the
transaction was done. I think you were properly cautious.

Leam


On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Mondo Hondo <knerdly1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> My dilemma is as follows:
>
> 1) I fat fingered the following: "www.lpaypal.com" .
> 2) I did not reach PayPal, but some alternative site offering things I did
> not want.
> 3) I retyped, "www.paypal.com" in the address bar.
> 4) Signed-in PayPal, endeavored to transfer funds and got a security
> warning , "You probably are not reaching the site you wanted...click
> here...back to safety."
> 5) The warning stated that I was reaching (IIRC) "www.roverpal.com" the
> address bar read "www.paypal.com/....."
> 6) I figured that there were DNS  shenanigans, so I: shutdown, reset my
> clear modem and Linksys router, and then rebooted.
> 7) I signed into PayPal, conducted my business, and logged-out.
>
> Now I feel remorse. Was that foolish?
>
> Thanks,
> Preston
>
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