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

[Michael Nolan]

I'd at least change your PayPal password to a long random string.  If you
entered your user and password while on a phishing site, they could
have captured it.


On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 10:41 AM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:

> I use either OpenDNS or DYNDNS for my name servers. Can't think of any
> carrier I trust more than those two.
>
> My guess is that maybe your keyboard is broke. :)  However, there's no
> reason to avoid increasing security when it's not difficult to do.
>
> Leam
>
>
> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 10:31 AM, H P Ladds <householdwords at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:58 AM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks much Learn. The lock was there when I logged back-in to complete
>> the transaction.
>>
>> Is it likely that my fat fingers caused this?
>>
>> For months I've had DNS resolution difficulties. Till now I mostly
>> suspected my ageing equipment was the cause of these difficulties, but now
>> I wonder.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 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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