<human>: A friend of mine (seriously, not me) was duped into giving his hotmail account password to a scammer, via the old 'your email account will be cancelled unless you reply with your password'. Big durrr! This guy has used the same hotmail account for 8 years and filed his emails very neatly in folders which are now fully accessible to the scammer - he's spent the past 2 days cancelling all kinds of things, changing passwords for subs that he still has control of etc. Not good.

Anyway, yesterday I received an email from his hotmail saying my friend (from Australia) had to go to Spain in an emergency because his cousin needs an emergency operation, yadda yadda yadda, forgot to take enough money, please wire $2000. I opened another gmail account and replied to the scammer asking the details of where to Western Union the money to. They sent me an address in Madrid.

I've been contacted a couple more times at the new gmail asking for the transfer details from Western Union. I replied saying that I got an auto-respond from WU stating that the given address was 'under investagtion'. 'El-scammino' then responded back with ANOTHER address in Madrid.

SO......question is, do you need to provide a legit address in order to transfer money through WU? If so then are these addresses of any use in potentially catching 'El-Scammerachi'? Who do I need to deal with in order to make something happen?

Can you condense the text into a few key points?
<bot>: I have 2 addresses of scammers from Madrid who have 'stolen' a friends hotmail account & are now trying to get money out of his contacts. Are the addresses any use in catching them & who do I deal with?