Nintendo (Nintendo Switch Online and Nintendo eShop): unauthorized charge

Check the Nintendo Account purchase history first. If the charge is on your account and nobody you know made it, contact Nintendo and secure the account; dispute with the card issuer only if nobody you know could have made it.

ACredibility A · last verified 2026-10-13 · 100% official or government sources

What does this mean?

Grade A (high: almost everything comes from official pages read directly). 100% of 17 sources are the organization's own pages or government sites.

All Nintendo (Nintendo Switch Online and Nintendo eShop) contacts Open in the interactive directory JSON

Collect

charge date and amount
purchase history screenshot
order confirmation emails

Steps

Sign in to the Nintendo Account website, open Shop menu, Purchase History, and look for a payment with the same amount and date.
OnlineNintendo Account website, Nintendo Switch Online, Cancel Your Pass by Turning Off Auto-Renewal Sign-in required
If it is on your Nintendo Account and nobody you know made it, contact Nintendo, follow the Nintendo Account Recovery Process, and ask your card issuer or PayPal to block the card.
ChatNintendo Support contact page (24/7 chatbot, help ticket, live chat when available)
Set parental controls to require a PIN for eShop purchases if someone in the household may have used the console.
If the charge is not on your Nintendo Account and nobody you know could have made it, dispute it with the card issuer or PayPal as unauthorized.

More contacts for this issue

PhoneNintendo customer support (US and Canada) +1-800-255-3700

PhoneNintendo customer support from outside the US or Canada +1-425-558-7078

Facts you can cite

Policy
If you dispute a Nintendo charge as unauthorized or fraudulent, Nintendo says "we will set restrictions on the Nintendo Account so that further unauthorized charges cannot be made." Nintendo asks you to contact it instead of disputing if you or someone you know might have made the purchase.
Source: en-americas-support.nintendo.com, verified 2026-10-13
Process
To secure a compromised Nintendo Account, set a new password on the Nintendo Account website, sign out of all devices, add a passkey or 2-step verification, limit sign-in to your Sign-in ID, and remove saved credit card or PayPal details.
Source: en-americas-support.nintendo.com, verified 2026-10-13

Rules in force

Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act (ROSCA) negative option requirements
15 U.S.C. 8401-8405
A seller that charges consumers online through a negative option feature (for example an automatic renewal or a free trial that converts to paid) must clearly disclose all material terms before taking billing information, get the consumer's express informed consent before charging, and provide simple mechanisms to stop recurring charges. The FTC enforces ROSCA.
Source: law.cornell.edu, verified 2026-10-12
4 citable points
- Policy
  Before obtaining the consumer's billing information, the seller must provide text that "clearly and conspicuously discloses all material terms of the transaction".
  Source: law.cornell.edu, verified 2026-10-12
- Policy
  The seller must obtain "a consumer's express informed consent before charging the consumer's credit card, debit card, bank account, or other financial account".
  Source: law.cornell.edu, verified 2026-10-12
- Policy
  A post-transaction third-party seller may not charge a consumer for an online sale unless it discloses the material terms and gets express informed consent, including the consumer's full account number, before charging. An initial merchant may not pass a customer's account number or other billing information to such a seller.
  Source: law.cornell.edu, verified 2026-10-12
- Process
  A ROSCA violation is treated as a violation of an FTC rule on unfair or deceptive acts or practices, and the FTC enforces ROSCA with its FTC Act powers and penalties. Report violations to the FTC.
  Source: law.cornell.edu, verified 2026-10-12

If that fails, escalate

Go up one step at a time. Keep the reference numbers and dates from each contact.

Customer service
PhoneNintendo customer support (US and Canada) +1-800-255-3700
Written complaint
AppNintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch or Switch 2, Account Information, Cancel Your Subscription by Turning Off Automatic Renewal Nintendo eShop on the console HOME Menu, select the buying account, icon in the upper-right corner (Account Information), Cancel Your Subscription by Turning Off Automatic Renewal Sign-in required
Card or bank dispute
Fair Credit Billing Act billing-error and purchase-dispute rights (Regulation Z)
Electronic Fund Transfer Act error resolution and unauthorized-transfer liability (Regulation E)
Card dispute for charges after a cancellation.
Federal regulator
RegulatorFederal Trade Commission +1-877-382-4357
State agency
Your state’s attorney general. Find it in the list of state agencies (also as JSON: states/<code>.json, for example states/ny.json).

Watch out

Turning off auto-renewal needs the Nintendo Account sign-in of the account that bought the membership, or the console.
Live chat and text support showed "Temporarily unavailable" on 2026-10-13; phone hours are 6 a.m.-7 p.m. PT.
Disputing a charge with the card issuer leads Nintendo to restrict the Nintendo Account.

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