Is this a scam or virus? [YouTube E-mail]

[◄Chuck►]

One new practice Ive seen recently:
You know most services require a valid email address to prevent spam and abuse. So, if you want to get many accounts, you need many email address (ie which are not blacklisted). So, these people use collected email addresses to open accounts and hope that the actual owner is "foolish" enough to click "confirm" in their email

In this case, the "bad" spammer gets a free youtube account to send spam from.