The new iteration of the scam goes one step further. Rather than get the victim to look, they get you to install teamviewer (although no doubt other similar tools are likely used). They take control of your machine and start moving the files across. Manually infecting, sorry fixing, your machine. In this particular instance they noticed they were in a VM and promptly started removing the files they had moved, before the link was dropped and the phone call terminated.

The scam is obviously still working. It seems they have figured out that users can't be trusted to click a link, but installing remote control software and getting you to install the malware for them is ok.

Read here.

Wow, just....Wow..

This is interesting, from the comments on that page now it seems that malicious software writers are also attempting to distinguish between a real machine and VM. Trying in essence to make it more difficult for those that are trying to track down how they infect a machine.

www.eecs.umich.edu/~zmao/Papers/DCCS-xu-chen.pdf