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

[H P Ladds]

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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