Rajkumar Surisetti, who claims to be the director of Anija Global, a company registered in Barcelona and Hongkong, wanted to rent my apartment in Barcelona for 4 months from November 2020 until February 2021. He claimed that he was currently living in Castelldefels and that his wife Hana Surisetti and their 3 kids would be coming to Barcelona any time soon from Czech Republic.

Raj Surisetti seemed extremely nice and educated – he claims to be a technical engineer with an impressive academic record who would be moving to the UK very soon but was now still stuck in Barcelona on a project due to the Covid 19 situation.

He was supposed to move into my house on the 1st of November, on Friday 30th of October 2020 he sent the proof of a payment that was going to be made into my account  on Monday. This paper was issued by transferwise, a company that many of my clients int the UK use.

He also emailed the copies of his Spanish driving license, of his NIE along with the passport copies of his wife and kids to me. I thought that everything was going to be fine.

On Saturday 31st of October he messaged me asking if he could move in on that same day as Castelldefels was going into a hard lockdown. I didn´t really care about a day and so I organised that he could move in earlier. From that moment on, his mobile phone number didn´t work anymore. Two days later the money hadn´t arrived, I sent him an email and asked, received a swift and very polite reply and thought again that  everything was going to be okay. He also told me that he had lost his mobile phone during the move and that this was the reason why he was using a new number (I suppose this one has gotten lost as well in the meantime).

To cut the long story short: during the following two weeks Raj (Rajkumar) Surisetti told me that we was sick – first he thought it was only a flu, then he claimed it was  Covid (we even organised for somebody to deposit food and water in front of the door of our loft). He claimed, he was hospitalised (but strangely enough was at home when I sent somebody to the house) and hence totally unable to make a payment.  He continued sending fake proofs, paypal messages etc – the message always being „your money is on its way, please don´t treat me like a criminal“.

He finally left the house after almost 5 weeks and surprisingly his phone does no longer work. I did some research to find out that he together with his wife as a long lasting track record of fraud – so don´t let him into your house and don´t let him sweettalk you into anything.
If you have been in touch with that person, if you are having second thoughts about that person – please feel free to get in touch with me.