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

[knerdly1 at gmail.com (Mondo Hondo)]

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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