Hey there!  I'm Alix Shadonnay at the business desk and today I'd like to alert you to an airline scam that is making the rounds. 
So many of us are using the Internet these days to book online tickets to our destinations and we're doing this because it is cheaper, more convenient, and quicker.  However, the scam artistes are at work as usual and they have found a way to encroach into the airline industry and the sooner you are aware of it the quicker it would be to stop these sickening Human Beings.  Here's how it seems to be working:
Scammers purchase tickets from airlines.  They then advertise them at a very cheap price on the Internet and of course you are attracted by these dirt cheap rates.  You as an unsuspecting victim eagerly offer to buy this once in a lifetime ticket and then the scammer closes in by asking for your credit card number.  You give it without any hesitation or thought of anything but being scammed or robbed.  You've just given out your credit card number to someone who is going to take it and use it to purchase all kinds of things using your card number.  The deed has been committed and you're now wide open to being scammed through your credit card.  However, it does not end there.  The scammers then take your credit card number and continue to purchase more tickets which they turn around and sell at cheap prices once again.
Where are they making their money?  They're making it by using your credit card.  How does an airline know that this is a scam?  When the name on the credit card does not match the name on the purchased ticket.  A very simple way to scam you.  Not very sophisticated but extremely powerful and damaging to the unsuspecting victim buying the cheap ticket.
So, when next you decide to go online to purchase your airline ticket, do please buy it from the airline in question and not through any third party that you've never met.
Enjoy the rest of your day.