HI, I think i need help...I recieved an email on my school account that looked like this...

Dear Lucky Winner's,


This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only (US$500,000.00) in the YEAR 2006/2007 YAHOO! Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO! LOTTERY INC for the introduction and Launching of the new YAHOO ! BETA MAIL which all YAHOO! subscribers are required to switch to.
YAHOO! & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, arranged and gathered all the e-mail addresses of the people that are active online, among the Millions that subscribe at YAHOO!, HOT MAIL and others we only selected THREE (3) candidates as our winners after undergoing the random selection process through Electronic Balloting System (E.B.S) without the candidate applied, we congratulate you for being one of the people selected.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

You are to contact the Claim Agent Reverend. Dr. James Smith who will issue you a clearance paper as a winning certificate approved and certified from our Regional office in London,United Kingdom. and your prize money will be released to you from any of our regional promotion banks as directed by the claim agent.



YAHOO! Beta Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 14 days from date of Draw Notification in which Prize has been won.

Note: Any prize not claimed within this period 15 days) will be forfeited.

IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS:
Batch number.....................YBM-EBS-390AF
Reff number........................YBM-EBS-719AF
Winning number...............YBM-EBS-798AF


These numbers above fall within the United Kingdon and West African Location files, you are requested to contact him and send your Identification Numbers and Personal Information to him;
Reverend Dr James Wilson
Claim agent and verification officer
Email address: agnt.james_uk@hotmail.com
Phone: +44-702-406-8185
Address:London,United Kingdom,Great Britain
You are therefore advised to send the following information to him to facilitate and process the transfer of your fund with any of our Bank promotion agents.

Send your Identification Numbers/Your Personal Information to him so that he will proceed further for your prize claim immediately:

PERSONAL INFORMATION
1. Full Name:............................................. ...................................
2. Nationlity/Religion:......................................... ........................
3. Contact Address:.......................................... ..........................
4. Telephone Number:........................................... .....................
5. Fax Number:........................................... .................................
6. Date of Brith:............................................ ...............................
7. Occupation........................................ .....................................
8. Age............................................... ............................................
9. Sex............................................... ................................................
10. Atternative E-mail address:.......................................... .........
11. Next of Kin of the Beneficlary incase......


You are advised to keep your winning information confidential to avoid double claim and abuse of the program until your prize is paid to you.

We hope you're enjoying your new Yahoo! Mail account.
Now take the next step and claim your money and say thanks to Yahoo!
You select how to transfer the prize money to you

1. Account Transfer to your nominated account
2. Cheque Delivery

This prize will be released to you from any of our promotional banks as will be directed by the United Kingdom Claim/verification agent.


Note: No amount should be allowed to be deducted from your prize money as a contractual agreement between this board and the paying bank.

We use this opportunity to thank our major network sponsors/promoters luckymail.com and hotmail.com for their support to this year winning notification draw to the lucky winners.

should I be afraid that my computer now has spyware or a virus on it?