Using Your Plastic Overseas However irritating the bank adverts are, (you know the ones, depicting a woman asking the unhelpful bank manager about the charges for using her credit card abroad), they have a point. As consumers, we are being charged increasingly more for using our plastic outside the UK. We are not being given enough information and awareness about the charges and how to avoid them all together. However, help...... Similar Editorial : Plastic Acupuncture by Doug Devlin. | Source : Credit Card Fraud In