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I only "hover" before clicking on suspicious links in emails.

Yeah, the hover trick is only recommended for looking at URLs in e-mails before clicking them (no sane client would execute JavaScript contained in an e-mail), but really you should just never click a link in an e-mail anyway and open up a new window and type in the URL of the website.

Open a new browser window and type in PayPal.com rather than clicking any links in that "You need to update your information or your account will be shut down" e-mail.

Once you're actually on PayPal.com (or whatever), looking at the hover URLs is pointless.

It's better to have trusted bookmarks than type any such URL because nobody can be sure to be smarter than fisher.

If you have a PayPal account, having a bookmark for PayPal is not any more secure than typing paypal.com into your browser's address bar.

What if I make mistake during typing? If typosquatting works then many people do such mistakes, why I must think that I am special?

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