A VIACOMCBS STREAMING charge on a credit card, debit card, or bank statement is usually associated with a direct Paramount+ subscription or a legacy CBS All Access account.
The wording contains an older corporate name. Paramount+ is now part of Paramount Skydance, while the current U.S. subscription terms identify CBS Interactive Inc. as the company providing the service. Because banks can shorten or retain older merchant information, a current Paramount+ payment may still display CBS or ViacomCBS wording.
What Is ViacomCBS Streaming Charge?
ViacomCBS Streaming charge usually identifies a Paramount+ subscription payment, subscription renewal, trial conversion, or older CBS All Access account.
The charge may have appeared because:
- You subscribed directly through ParamountPlus.com
- A monthly Paramount+ plan renewed
- An annual Paramount+ plan renewed
- A free trial or promotional period converted to paid billing
- An old CBS All Access subscription continued under Paramount+
- You upgraded or changed a Paramount+ plan
- A previously canceled subscription was restarted
- Another household member created an account
- A second Paramount+ account was opened with another email address
- A saved or backup payment method was charged
- Your bank updated replacement-card information supplied to the merchant
- The payment was unauthorized
Check the complete descriptor, amount, date, transaction status, Paramount+ account, email receipts, app-store subscriptions, and other authorized card users before reporting it as fraud.
Why Does the Charge Still Say ViacomCBS?
The charge may still say ViacomCBS because it is an older corporate or billing description connected with the service now called Paramount+.
CBS All Access became Paramount+ in 2021. ViacomCBS then changed its corporate name to Paramount Global in 2022, and the company later became part of Paramount Skydance.
Bank-statement descriptions do not always change at the same time as a public brand. A card issuer may also preserve older merchant data in recurring-payment records, archived transactions, digital-wallet records, or previously established billing agreements.
The use of an older name does not by itself make the transaction fraudulent.
Does Paramount Plus Show Up as CBS on Bank Statement?
Yes, Paramount+ can appear with CBS-related wording on a bank statement, especially when the account began as CBS All Access or was billed by CBS Interactive Inc.
Possible CBS-related wording includes:
- CBS ALL ACCESS
- CBS MOBILE APP
- CBS INTERACTIVE
- CBS STREAMING
- VIACOMCBS STREAMING
The exact wording depends on when the account was created, whether billing is direct or through another platform, the card issuer, and how the bank formats recurring transactions.
How Does Paramount Plus Show Up on Bank Statement?
Paramount+ may appear under the Paramount+ name, an older ViacomCBS or CBS name, a customer-service telephone number, or the third party that collected the payment.
Reported, searched, or possible variations include:
- VIACOMCBS STREAMING
- VIACOM CBS STREAMING
- VIACOMCBS STREAMING 8882745343
- VIACOMCBS
- CBS ALL ACCESS
- CBS ALL ACCESS 8882745343
- CBS MOBILE APP
- CBS INTERACTIVE
- PARAMOUNT+
- PARAMOUNT PLUS
- PARAMOUNTPLUS.COM
- PARAMOUNT+ 8882745343
- CHECKCARD VIACOMCBS STREAMING
- POS DEBIT VIACOMCBS STREAMING
- RECURRING VIACOMCBS STREAMING
- PENDING VIACOMCBS STREAMING
This is not an official or exhaustive descriptor list. Banks may remove spaces, shorten names, add a telephone number, show a payment processor, or temporarily display different information while a transaction is pending.
A Paramount+ subscription purchased through Amazon, Apple, Google Play, Roku, a television provider, or another platform may show that third party instead of Paramount or ViacomCBS.
Current Paramount Plus Subscription Prices
Current U.S. direct subscription options include:
- Paramount+ Essential monthly: $8.99 per month
- Paramount+ Essential annual: $89.99 per year
- Paramount+ Premium monthly: $13.99 per month
- Paramount+ Premium annual: $139.99 per year
Applicable taxes may increase the final transaction amount.
Promotional pricing, student discounts, bundles, app-store pricing, third-party offers, older plans, and future price changes can produce a different total. Review the account or billing provider for the exact plan and renewal amount.
Is ViacomCBS Streaming a Recurring Charge?
It is usually recurring when it represents a monthly or annual Paramount+ subscription.
A recurring subscription generally continues at the selected billing interval and then-current price until it is canceled.
The payment may occur:
- At the beginning of a new monthly billing period
- At the beginning of an annual renewal period
- When an eligible free trial ends
- When a fully discounted promotional period expires
- After a failed payment is attempted again
- After a payment method is updated
Cancel before the next renewal date to prevent another scheduled payment.
Why Did Paramount Plus Charge Me After a Free Trial?
A Paramount+ trial or fully discounted promotion can convert automatically to a paid subscription when the offer ends.
A valid payment method is generally required at signup. Unless the subscription is canceled before the trial or promotion expires, billing may begin automatically at the applicable plan price.
The length and conditions of a trial can vary by offer. Check:
- The original signup page
- The confirmation email
- The Paramount+ account page
- The trial expiration date
- The selected plan
- The next billing date
- Whether the subscription was obtained through another provider
Why Is There a Small Temporary Paramount Charge?
A small pending amount may be a temporary payment-method verification rather than the full subscription charge.
Paramount’s terms allow a nominal charge to be temporarily taken when a primary or backup payment method is added or updated.
Check whether the entry:
- Is still pending
- Has been reversed
- Was followed by the regular subscription amount
- Appeared immediately after a card update
- Appeared when a new account was created
Contact Paramount+ and the card issuer if the small amount becomes a completed charge and cannot be explained.
Why Are There Two Paramount Plus Charges?
Two Paramount+ or ViacomCBS Streaming charges may indicate two accounts, two billing providers, a plan change, or a pending authorization and completed payment.
Possible explanations include:
- Two Paramount+ accounts using different email addresses
- A direct Paramount+ subscription and a separate Amazon subscription
- A direct subscription and an Apple, Google Play, or Roku subscription
- An older CBS All Access account and a newer Paramount+ account
- A monthly renewal and a separate plan upgrade
- A pending authorization followed by the completed transaction
- A failed payment that was attempted again
- A subscription and a separately billed add-on
- A genuine duplicate charge
- Repeated unauthorized transactions
Wait for pending transactions to settle before deciding that the card was charged twice. Search every household email address and every subscription platform for a second account.
How to Identify a ViacomCBS Streaming Charge
- Copy the complete statement descriptor.
- Record the amount, date, and transaction status.
- Determine whether the charge is monthly-sized or annual-sized.
- Search email for Paramount+, Paramount Plus, ViacomCBS, CBS All Access, and CBS Interactive.
- Check spam, promotions, archived, and deleted folders.
- Sign in to every possible Paramount+ account.
- Review the current plan, billing date, payment method, and account history.
- Check Apple, Google Play, Amazon, Roku, and television-provider subscriptions.
- Ask every authorized cardholder and household member.
- Compare the amount with current Paramount+ pricing and applicable taxes.
- Contact Paramount+ using its official support channels.
- Ask the bank for expanded merchant information if it remains unidentified.
How to Cancel a Direct Paramount Plus Subscription
Cancel a subscription purchased directly from Paramount+ through the Paramount+ account page.
The general process is:
- Sign in to the Paramount+ account.
- Open the Account page.
- Review the current subscription and next billing date.
- Select the cancellation or cancel-subscription option.
- Complete every confirmation step.
- Save the cancellation email or a screenshot.
- Confirm the date on which access will end.
- Verify that another renewal is not scheduled.
A direct paid subscription normally remains accessible until the end of the current billing period.
Deleting the Paramount+ app does not cancel the subscription.
How to Cancel Paramount Plus Through Amazon, Apple, Google, or Roku
Cancel through the same third party that originally billed the subscription.
That may be:
- Amazon or Prime Video Channels
- Apple or the App Store
- Google Play
- Roku
- A cable, wireless, internet, or television provider
- Another streaming or subscription platform
A third-party subscription may not appear in the billing section of a directly created Paramount+ account.
Check the bank description and original receipt to determine who collected the payment. Use that provider’s subscription-management page to cancel, change the payment method, or request a refund.
Canceling a direct Paramount+ account does not cancel a separate Amazon, Apple, Google Play, Roku, or provider subscription.
Does Canceling Paramount Plus Refund the Charge?
Canceling ordinarily prevents future renewals but does not automatically refund fees already paid.
For a direct paid subscription:
- Cancellation normally takes effect at the end of the billing period
- Access usually continues until that date
- Previously paid fees are generally not refunded
Contact support for review when:
- The subscription was not authorized
- The same account was charged twice
- Two accounts were accidentally created
- Billing continued after a confirmed cancellation date
- An incorrect amount was charged
- Paramount acknowledges an overcharge
- A refund is required under applicable law
Third-party refund decisions are governed by the provider that collected the payment.
Cancel future billing separately even when requesting a refund for the current charge.
How to Contact Paramount Plus About a ViacomCBS Streaming Charge
- Consumer service: Paramount+
- Current U.S. service provider named in the terms: CBS Interactive Inc.
- Current corporate parent: Paramount Skydance Corporation
- Website: ParamountPlus.com
- Account page: Manage a Paramount+ Account
- Help Center: Paramount+ Help Center
- Contact page: Contact Paramount+ Support
- Telephone: 888-274-5343
- Subscription terms: Paramount+ Terms of Use
- Formal legal-notice address published in the terms: CBS Interactive Inc., 680 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
Use the Help Center, contact page, or telephone number for ordinary account and billing support. The formal legal-notice address is not a replacement for normal customer service.
For an unrecognized payment, have the following ready:
- The final four card digits
- The transaction date
- The transaction amount
- The complete statement wording
- The account email address, if known
- The subscription plan, if known
- The billing provider
- Whether the payment is pending or completed
- Any cancellation confirmation
Do not publicly post a complete card number, bank-account number, password, account email, verification code, or support-case number.
Consumer Reports About ViacomCBS Streaming Charges
There are currently no visible published reader reviews on this ChargeOnMyCard.com page.
Therefore, there is not enough page-specific feedback to claim:
- A standard complaint pattern
- A typical disputed amount
- A common cancellation problem
- A normal refund result
- That readers generally consider the charge fraudulent
A recognizable merchant descriptor does not prove that a particular payment was authorized. Verify each transaction through the account, billing provider, merchant, and bank.
What to Do If You Never Subscribed to Paramount Plus
- Ask every authorized cardholder and household member.
- Search all email addresses for Paramount+, CBS All Access, ViacomCBS, and subscription receipts.
- Check whether a free trial or promotion was used.
- Look for a second account created with a different or misspelled email address.
- Check Amazon, Apple, Google Play, Roku, and television-provider subscriptions.
- Contact Paramount+ with the last four card digits, charge date, and amount.
- Ask whether the payment can be matched to an account.
- Cancel any unintended subscription.
- Request review of the completed transaction.
- Ask the bank for the complete merchant record.
- Lock the card if unauthorized use appears likely.
- Dispute the transaction when no authorized account or subscription can be identified.
- Request a replacement card if recommended by the issuer.
What Information Should You Request From the Bank?
Ask for:
- The complete unshortened merchant descriptor
- The legal merchant name
- The merchant telephone number
- The merchant address
- The merchant category code
- Whether the payment was marked recurring
- Whether the charge was submitted by Paramount or a third party
- Whether a digital wallet was used
- Whether updated card information was supplied to the merchant
- Whether a card-security code was submitted
- Whether other authorization attempts occurred
- Whether the transaction is pending, completed, reversed, or refunded
Frequently Asked Questions
What Is the ViacomCBS Streaming Charge on Credit Card?
It usually represents a direct Paramount+ subscription, legacy CBS All Access subscription, recurring renewal, trial conversion, or related account payment.
What Does Paramount Plus Show Up As on Bank Statement?
It may show as Paramount+, Paramount Plus, ViacomCBS Streaming, CBS All Access, CBS Interactive, CBS Mobile App, a telephone-number variation, or the third party that billed the subscription.
Does Paramount Plus Show Up as CBS on Bank Statement?
Yes. CBS-related wording may appear because Paramount+ replaced CBS All Access and the current U.S. service terms identify CBS Interactive Inc. as the service provider.
Is ViacomCBS Streaming the Same as Paramount Plus?
The descriptor is commonly associated with Paramount+ direct billing or an account that originated with CBS All Access. Confirm the specific transaction through the account and receipt.
Is CBS All Access Now Paramount Plus?
Yes. CBS All Access was rebranded as Paramount+ in 2021.
Is ViacomCBS Streaming a Monthly Subscription?
It can be. Paramount+ offers monthly and annual recurring plans, so check the amount and account billing interval.
Why Did Paramount Plus Charge Me $8.99?
A charge near $8.99 before or plus taxes may match the current monthly Paramount+ Essential price.
Why Did Paramount Plus Charge Me $13.99?
A charge near $13.99 before or plus taxes may match the current monthly Paramount+ Premium price.
What Is 888-274-5343?
It is a customer-service telephone number currently published in the Paramount+ U.S. terms.
Why Does Paramount Plus Still Charge an Old Card?
The merchant may receive updated card details from the payment provider, use an authorized backup payment method, or process the subscription through a third party. Ask the bank and Paramount+ which payment credential was used.
Why Can’t Paramount Plus Find My Charge?
The payment may belong to another email address, a second account, an older CBS All Access account, or a subscription billed through Amazon, Apple, Google Play, Roku, or another provider.
Can I Cancel Paramount Plus by Deleting the App?
No. Delete the app only after canceling through Paramount+ or the third party that bills the subscription.
Can I Get a Refund From Paramount Plus?
Ordinary cancellation generally does not refund fees already paid. Contact the applicable billing provider about duplicate, unauthorized, incorrect, or post-cancellation payments and any legally required refund.
Is the ViacomCBS Streaming Charge Fraudulent?
The wording is associated with a real streaming service, but that does not prove that an individual payment was authorized. Report it when no account, subscription, authorized user, or valid receipt can be found.
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Share Your ViacomCBS Streaming or Paramount Plus Experience
If you identified a ViacomCBS Streaming, CBS All Access, CBS Mobile App, CBS Interactive, Paramount+, or 888-274-5343 charge, share only nonprivate details that may help another cardholder.
Helpful information includes:
- The shortened statement descriptor
- The general amount or price range
- Whether the plan was monthly or annual
- Whether the subscription began as CBS All Access
- Whether a free trial or promotion converted
- Whether another household member subscribed
- Whether a second account was found
- Whether Amazon, Apple, Google Play, Roku, or another provider billed it
- Which cancellation method worked
- Whether a refund was issued
- How Paramount+ or the bank resolved the payment
Do not post:
- Card or bank-account numbers
- Paramount+ login information
- Account email addresses
- Telephone numbers
- Passwords or verification codes
- Support-case numbers
- Complete bank statements
- Digital-wallet transaction IDs
Why Rely on ChargeOnMyCard.com?
ChargeOnMyCard.com researches confusing credit-card, debit-card, streaming-subscription, app-store, recurring-payment, telephone-number, and bank-statement descriptors using official merchant information and visible cardholder reports.
We distinguish older corporate and service names from current consumer brands and explain how to identify a subscription, find the correct billing provider, cancel future renewals, request merchant assistance, or report an unauthorized transaction.
ChargeOnMyCard.com cannot access a Paramount+, CBS, Amazon, Apple, Google Play, Roku, or television-provider account; cancel a subscription; issue a refund; identify a private cardholder; or file a bank dispute.
Last reviewed: July 16, 2026.
Disclaimer
ChargeOnMyCard.com is not affiliated with Paramount Skydance Corporation, Paramount+, Paramount Streaming, CBS Interactive Inc., CBS, ViacomCBS, Paramount Global, CBS All Access, SHOWTIME, Amazon, Apple, Google Play, Roku, any television provider, subscriber, viewer, cardholder, bank, credit union, card network, digital wallet, or payment processor. This article is provided for informational purposes only and is not financial, legal, subscription, streaming, refund, account-security, dispute, or fraud-prevention advice. Contact the applicable billing provider and financial institution regarding a specific transaction.
