A blog about skating and cycling, or vice versa

How stupid is this?#

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:29:25 +0000

Dear Mr. Barlow ,

Unfortunately we are unable to charge the credit card you specified when booking with the fare of 38,00 GBP .The credit card company refused the payment.

Please send us your credit card details (complete credit card number, CVC code and expiry date) by 19.06.2007 so we can make sure we have the correct information. [...] Please send us the complete e-mail in your response, since our correspondence is dealt with by a team.

The headers say it's from who it says it is, so if it's a scam it's an unusually well-done one. And further illustrating the wisdom of automatically adding disclaimers to outgoing email:
This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only.
If the message is received by anyone other than the addressee, please 
return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete the 
message from your computer. *Internet e-mails are not necessarily 
secure*. Air Berlin PLC & Co Luftverkehrs KG does not accept 
responsibility for changes made to this message after it was sent.

My emphasis. Clearly not their emphasis ...