This page was originally hosted on http://eyavala.com. Because the domain expired, and I wasn’t inclined to spend money on renewing it, I’ve pull it into my blog as of August 8, 2018. It stayed as a draft for some time, and was published on November 5, 2018. Please see my round 2 article for more details. Updates applied to this article are in italics.

I’ve reduced this site to pretty much this page, because I have a story to tell.

Who am I? Just a guy that Enesi got to buy this domain name, and help him set up a web presence. Since then, he’s disappeared, and I’m finally getting around to telling this story. Enesi, if you ever read this, know that I’m not particularly angry … the money you received wasn’t particularly necessary to my wife and me, but I’m forced to wonder at the truth of anything you said.

Enesi turned up at our church, and told our pastors that the answer was “Yes.” God was going to provide the funds we so desperately needed. Enesi said that he was a businessman worth a lot of money, and he had something like $600 million stored around the globe, and he was going to give some of it to the church. It was locked up in various accounts: some in South Africa; some in the US. He was on the run from the Fijian government, being in political exile. He had a story to tell about how God had woken him with a dream, and how he had to leave Fiji at moment’s notice, but if you’re reading this, you’ve probably heard the story.

Anyway, he didn’t have access to the funds right then because the accounts were frozen by the courts, but he did have enquiry-only access to one account via phone banking. He was at our house, and he got me to go to the Wells Fargo banking web site. He dialled the phone number (I was a little surprised he didn’t just log in with a browser, but hey … security concerns, right?) and entered an account number and a password. He used a menu to get the balance, and it read out a balance of something in excess of $US54M. Later, I came to believe that that was not his account, and the reason he didn’t log in on the browser is that we would have seen an account owner name that had nothing to do with him or his companies.

I did a web search on him, and didn’t find much. I found a link to this interview (wayback machine link as the interview was removed from the ABC site) on the ABC’s web site, and it seemed legit. I found a couple of photos of him around the place, but there were a couple of things that were of concern.

  • First, a consultant had mentioned him in a project plan, and then put the plan (and a whole lot of other people’s plans) on a shared drive that Google subsequently indexed and made available to the world. I got in contact with the consultant and told him how to get the information out of Google’s search results, and after a period of time, this happened.
  • There is this document (wayback machine link as Fiji’s online hansard now only extends back to 2014) that lists Enesi as a “Cancelled Liquidation Case”, but he was also mentioned as having been found guilty of “fraudulent conversion”, and the denial of appeal is noted here. This fraud carried a suspended prison sentence.

Anyway, over a period of a couple of years, Enesi dropped in and out of our lives, always with the promise that the gift was just around the corner. Reasons why he needed money were:

  • He needed to open a “wealthy client” account so he could transfer significant sums into it. That was to cost thousands of dollars.
  • He needed a visa so he could get back into the country. I offered to pay this directly since I’d become suspicious by this time. I checked the prices for his visa on the US web site, and it was significantly cheaper than what he said he needed (something like a quarter of the price). He said not to bother.
  • He needed help towards airfares to get to South Africa and later Saudi Arabia because the transactions were of such an amount that he needed to be there in person.

He later went to Singapore and said that he’d got his investors together. He sent photos of the office space, and he also sent electronic copies of documents with Embassy seals outlining the investment he was making. Turns out that nothing came of this either.

Something I have discovered since then that he has been involved in a few different schemes, maybe because the church thing had run out (I somewhat doubt it), but it looks like he’s branching out. It also looks like he’s caused some other dramas on the Central Coast of NSW, Australia.

The reason for this page is so that people who are caught up in this web of promises can have a look at what’s down the path. There is a continued promise of great blessing, but also a continued stream of demands. Enesi presents himself as a warm and generous person, and maybe there is hope for him. Don’t know. I do know that the help he needs is not financial.