On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:37:47 -0600
"Dennis B. Hopp" <dh...@coreps.com> wrote:

> 
> > It is common in many parts of the world to use a period instead of a
> > comma as a digit group separator, and vice-versa for the decimal
> > separator.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousands_separator#Digit_grouping
> >
> 
> I knew it was common in other parts of the world, but for some
> reason was thinking that when referring to US Dollars it wouldn't
> be.  Now that I think about it I can understand why my original
> thought was wrong.

I don't think you were all that wrong, the spam had:

   $800.000.00 USD

I doubt there's any part of the world where they use the same symbol for
both.

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