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

[leam hall]

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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