Is it safe to buy apps from the Android market place? Need Help.

[Doobie_wop]

I'm knew to the whole Android experience and I'm looking to buy a few games from the market place. The only problem I have is that I've noticed that the market place is filled with rubbish games, some are clearly mislabelled and some just look really shifty. I actually want to buy Game Dev Story, but I'm worried that if I put in my credit card details, something may come back to bite me in the ass and I don't need a Russian tech kid to start flashing my details around in the next few weeks. Is the market place secure? Is it going through Google or is my money going straight to the app developer? Thanks for the help.