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Amazon seems to have 3 avenues to check for rights to buy in regards to geographic restrictions. I don't think anybody has ever been able to determine exactly what actions trigger a block from Amazon. Some people have been doing what you have been doing for a couple of years now and have never been blocked, some seem to get blocked fairly quickly.
These are the things to consider....
1. Address listed on Manage My Kindle page must be a valid US Address
You can use your friend US Address. It sounds like you are already doing this so it shouldn't be the problem.
2. Payment Method should be US payment method
Many get around this by buying an Amazon.com gift card and applying it to the account. Ebooks are purchased by the gift card and the address associated with the credit card used to buy the gift card never comes into play.
3. Physical location of the computer or Kindle used to make the purchase. This is a little trickier. Kindles are meant to travel so it isn't uncommon that a US buyer would be shopping on their Kindle out of country even for a period of months. However, if books are never bought from the US it might raise a red flag.
Some people shop from their computer using a US Proxy which gives them an appearance of physically being in the US. They download the book to the computer and then transfer it over to the Kindle.
I'd play around with purchasing via Gift Card first and then if you still can't get it to work start messing with the proxy servers.
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