best2fly Safe or Fraud!

as you all might be doing in this time of the year! I'm booking my tickets to fly home for the summer break.

in this short stressful week end where I have 5 assignments due by Wednesday the only mental break that I can afford now is to dream about home

my mom's Tabouleh, my dad's Arak, my cousin's Bachelor Party & probable wedding (the Party is certain, I'm not so sure about the wedding)... All I have to do is book the ticket.

so eager to get my booking that I even forgot that I had collected enough miles on another airline that will allow to fly home and back on first class I go ahead and use skyscanner to book my ticket.

sky scanner searches for the best deals and after I click one the site diverts me to another site best2fly.

this is where my story begins. I book a ticket with best2fly (remember all what is in my head is Tabouleh, Arak, Bachelor party and a probable wedding). I go through the whole drill, confirm dates, chose flight hours, insurance? no insurance, no hotels, no car rental, put in my credit card details... book ticket and peace... Lebanese beaches full of Bikini-clad girls dancing to the tunes of a pirated copy of "I got a feeling"_ here I come!!!

then I'm checking my gmail for the e-ticket and I receive an email that has a lot of Spanish literature on top of my booking details. Since my Spanish is a bit rusty and I didn't understand a couple of words ( 95% of the mail) I decided to ask a friend who tells me that the website is asking you to send a signed confirmation of the amount, with a copy of both your passport and your credit card... Arak, Tabouleh, Bachelor party, Wedding... I run, I scan my documents... and

STOP!!!!!!!

what am I doing? does any one know best2fly? anyone heard of it before? who am I giving my passport my credit card my life to? they would have more information about me than the woman who brought me to this life.

Where I was living and since an unlucky group of my friends got caught in a series of credit card fraud I learned to be so cautious that I would even hide my pin code from my own shadow when I was making a transaction.

it's Madrid's fault! :) the city communicates a sense of security that I forgot that a hacker or a credit card scam can take place in the basement of a dodgy place at the other end of the world.

now the question remains is it a fraud or is it a security measure! I don't know.
I just know that I'm not sending my copies to no one!

let me know guys what you think about it.