That’s too bad, it would’ve been better for you if it was
If you said, i don’t wanna give money to a Jew because i don’t support their stance in the current war, etc, blah blah blah, or whatever reason you might have for disliking Jews, as several people do, and have had for many years
This admission of yours just makes you a non discriminate scammer, and that’s a much worse character
Anyways, i could care less, i would never send anyone i dont know money like that, especially an Aussie, no offence to Aussies, but wasn’t that an English colony settled by thieves, weren’t they banished to a far away island surrounded by sharks because they couldn’t fit in to their own society, that’s the story i got, that’s not to say they haven’t mended their ways over time, but i think we just got a glimpse of that historiabilia
You were better off to just take the money and run, now you have no choice, you have to pay him back, you implicated yourself and could go to jail if you don’t, and your reputation is already f#%d, you totally dummied yourself with this move