On previous trips to XXXX, I have used my Bank of America ATM card to get cash at various ATMs. In XXXX, I have used XXXX XXXX, BoA 's partner bank there and never had a problem. As a result, on my recent trip to XXXX, I took little cash because I knew that I could get cash from the ATM. In fact, one of the reasons that I have a Bank of America ATM card is because I was assured by the bank that it would work overseas. 

On arriving in XXXX XX/XX/XXXX, I tried my ATM card at a XXXX branch and the machine indicated that the transaction could not be completed. I tried at other branches of XXXX as well as at other banks with the same result. On the chance that something was wrong with my card, I tried my wife 's card ( we are on the same account ) and that did n't work either. At the time, we had a balance in our checking account of more than {$10000.00}, so it was not a question of insufficient funds. I called Bank of America from XXXX ( at substantial cost to me, given international rates ) and after the usual voice mail tree, wait, prolonged identification process, and a transfer, got to a person to whom I explained my problem. Her response was that the chip in my ATM card was so sophisticated that the XXXX banks could n't process it. This, of course, is ridiculous ; XXXX has been using chip cards for several years and my chip card from XXXX XXXX worked fine for charging items. She also indicated that there was nothing that Bank of America could do for me to get me a card that worked, or to get me funds. Before I left for XXXX, I filed a travel notice with Bank of America, indicating that I would be using my ATM card when overseas. Although BoA did tell me that there would be a 3 % transaction fee, there was no indication that my card might not work. So here I was in XXXX at the beginning of a two week trip with little cash, and no one at Bank of America was prepared to assist me. Fortunately, XXXX XXXX, a company that seems to care about its customers, arranged to get me the cash that I needed for my trip. 
Clearly, in providing my wife and I with an ATM card that would n't work overseas ( it does work here in the states ) and refusing to even tell me why this happened or whether it will happen again the next time I go overseas it seems to me that Bank of America has engaged in fraud. 
