{"id":9768,"date":"2017-08-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yollacalls.com\/temp\/cashless-abroad-yolla-rescue\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T08:53:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T08:53:51","slug":"cashless-abroad-yolla-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/blog\/cashless-abroad-yolla-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling Overseas: When Cashless and Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vivid travelers always get into these awkward situations when the cash is gone and bank cards get blocked in the most undesirable moment. To get out of this, they usually have to call overseas to the bank keeping the number so that account manager at the bank knows it&#8217;s the client calls. Here always is Yolla to help in these issues!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n        <ul class=\"article__apps\">\n            <li class=\"article__apps-item\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/itunes-blog\" target=\"_blank\">\n                    <img src=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/white-app-store.svg\" alt=\"icon\"\/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n            <li class=\"article__apps-item\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/android-blog\" target=\"_blank\">\n                  <img src=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/white-google-play.svg\" alt=\"icon\"\/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n            <li class=\"article__apps-item web\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/en\/account\/?utm_source=blog-web\" target=\"_blank\">Join Yolla and start saving on calls<\/a>\n            <\/li>\n        <\/ul>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first two stories on how Yolla turned out to be a lifesaver for calling overseas are here: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/blog\/whatsapp-wont-save-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">part 1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/blog\/tips-saving-savvy-travellers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">part 2<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Bank Card to Be Blocked: Calling Overseas to the Bank<\/h2>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I do travel, and I travel a lot for work. Almost on a monthly basis. Last time I came to the US with my 3 co-workers all the travel expenses our company provided were on our <strong>corporate debit card<\/strong>. We didn\u2019t carry any cash, so the first essential thing to do was finding an <strong>ATM<\/strong>. And guess what? For the first time, my <strong>credit card was blocked<\/strong> all of the sudden! At first, I thought the ATM simply didn\u2019t accept the bank card, which is perfectly normal on the other side of the globe. We started wandering from one bank to another searching for the ATM that worked. No one did. Starving, we had no other choice but to call overseas to the bank. Due to fraud detection measures, my <strong>bank insists<\/strong> that all the <strong>calls<\/strong> <strong>must<\/strong> <strong>proceed<\/strong> from your <strong>registered phone number<\/strong>, so neither Skype nor Viber Out could help me. Can you imagine how much would the overseas call from a carrier SIM-card cost me?! A million dollars per minute! I needed an <strong>app<\/strong> which would <strong>keep my number<\/strong> but still cost a little. Thank God I had <strong>Yolla<\/strong> &#8211; I didn&#8217;t have to call overseas using my SIM-card data connection. They keep the number for free! In Skype, as far as I know, that feature goes with premium subscriptions only. Anyway, can you imagine how much time did it take to get my card working?! First, I couldn\u2019t get through to the available manager online. Then, they asked me an enormous number of security questions. After that, I had to name each ATM I tried to withdraw money from. But the worst was yet to come &#8211; the whole talk was in vain as the card wasn\u2019t turned back on after all. I had to make an overseas <strong>call to them once again<\/strong> and proceeded through the interview from scratch. With <strong>Yolla<\/strong>, I spent a ridiculously small amount on these calls, <strong>no more than $7 in total.<\/strong> I can\u2019t even imagine how much would it be if I\u2019d call overseas with my mobile data. We all would die to starve and would never come back from that trip. <strong>Yolla helped us survive!<\/strong><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/temp-get-yolla\">Get Yolla Now<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n        <ul class=\"article__apps\">\n            <li class=\"article__apps-item\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/itunes-blog\" target=\"_blank\">\n                    <img src=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/white-app-store.svg\" alt=\"icon\"\/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n            <li class=\"article__apps-item\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/android-blog\" target=\"_blank\">\n                  <img src=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/white-google-play.svg\" alt=\"icon\"\/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n            <li class=\"article__apps-item web\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/yollacalls.com\/en\/account\/?utm_source=blog-web\" target=\"_blank\">Join Yolla and start saving on calls<\/a>\n            <\/li>\n        <\/ul>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vivid travelers always get into these awkward situations when the cash is gone and bank cards get blocked in the most undesirable moment. 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