I got this email from NetPay:

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This message is to notify you that you have received a NetPay Spend Coupon.

From: NetPay Private Shares program
Value: $1.5 NPG

Click on the following link to view your NetPay Coupon and redeem it:

http://www.netpay.tv/cgi-bin/coupon.cgi?JG...B2SV9BPUO6NE3YT

Your coupon can be redeemed at the merchant's web site, by clicking on the
'Redeem' button on your spend coupon.
If the coupon is not used within three weeks, it is returned to the sender.

Sincerely,
NetPay.tv Customer Service
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I thought it was kind of strange because I expected a scam site but it lead to the actual NetPay website and since they didn't request any password, I got my 'free' shares.
However, I do find it strange that an e-currency would give out shares to a private HYIP. As well, I don't find any info about the shares when I log-in into my NetPay account.

Look back in the news on the NetPay site. It's not a HYIP, they're shares for NetPay itself.

Basically at the moment (don't know how long they're going to continue it) you get the value of your monthly account fee in shares. The shares may end up worthless, or they could end up making you rich Either way you haven't lost anything, and they were NetPay's way of easing the account-keeping fee in when they introduced it.

In my confirmation email I got this: "This email confirms your free shares within the Offshore Private Venture group
have been held at the
current rate."
I would say Offshore Private Venture group means the same as HYIP.
But I agree with you that its only for the plus side even though I would love to see them alowing us to purchase larger amounts of shares (currently maximum is $50 for some reason) and this way we will have a HYIP with the reliability of an e-currency.

There was a reason they gave for not letting people purchase large amounts....can't remember what it was offhand, but if you look back through the news archive, it should be there somewhere.