A charge from AUDIBLE* or adbl.co/bill on your statement

AUDIBLE* followed by a code of nine letters and numbers is Audible, the audiobook service. Audible’s help page puts it plainly: "The charge you see on your statement is from Audible, an Amazon company."¹ It lists four things the charge can be: a membership of $14.95 (Premium) or $7.95 (Standard) a month plus tax, which starts after a 30-day free trial; an audiobook bought outright; an Audible narration bought with a Kindle book; or a $1.00 temporary charge that checks the card.¹

What it looks like on a real statement

Audible says a US charge "comes from" Audible, adbl.co/bill.¹ The second part is a web address: when we opened adbl.co/bill on 12 October 2026 it forwarded to Audible’s help page about unknown charges. The public card records below show only the first part, with a code.

The State of Delaware publishes every purchase its employees make on state cards, with the merchant name as the bank received it. When we counted on 12 October 2026 it had 173 Audible lines, from March 2015 to August 2026.⁴ South Carolina’s monthly state card reports, which leave out the asterisk, had 53 lines of AUDIBLE and a code from February 2024 to June 2026.⁵

The code after the star

The code is new every time. Delaware’s records show one school’s membership charged $14.95 about once a month from 24 August 2019 to 23 August 2026: 79 charges, 79 different codes.⁴ So a code from last month will not match this month’s, and two lines with different codes can still be the same membership.

Every code we found has nine characters, and the last one is always 0, 1, 2 or 3: all 125 codes in Delaware’s records and all 53 in South Carolina’s.⁴⁵ Audible’s help pages that we read do not say what the code means.

The name around it has changed twice. Delaware’s lines read AUDIBLE or AUDIBLE US with no code until early 2019. The first line with a code is AUDIBLE US*MW2JE0NL1 on 14 March 2019. The same school district has a last AUDIBLE US* line on 27 January 2020 and a first AUDIBLE* line the next day, and every coded line after that starts AUDIBLE*.⁴

What a refund looks like

A refund does not carry the code. All 19 refund lines in Delaware’s records read just AUDIBLE, Audible or AUDIBLE US.⁴ Thirteen of them return a $14.95 charge in full, between 2015 and 2019, to the same department 3 to 28 days after it was charged.⁴ If you are waiting for money back, look for a minus amount under the plain name, not under the code you were charged with.

Why it can keep charging after you cancel

Audible’s billing help page gives these reasons for charges after cancelling or for a membership you never signed up for:²

• Two memberships on the same card. "You may have two active Audible memberships tied to your payment method."
• Two accounts under the same email address. Audible says this "can happen when you use different passwords for your Amazon and Audible accounts".
• A membership in another country’s Audible. Each country’s Audible has its own customer service. The help page tells you to find which one your account belongs to under your profile’s settings, at the bottom of the screen.
• A free trial that ran out. "Your 30-day free trial or special offer has expired and your plan has automatically renewed to a regular membership."
• Someone else. "Family members or friends may have access to your credit or debit card information and may have used it to make purchases on the Audible/Amazon site."

A charge of exactly $1.00 is a check on the card. Audible says: "You haven't been charged. This $1.00 charge is a digital service charge that won't be deducted from your account", and that it could take "several business days" to go away, depending on the bank.²

How to find it and stop it

1. Look in your purchase history Sign in at audible.com and open purchase history. If you have forgotten the password, Audible sends you to Amazon’s password reset.²
2. Try every email address you use If the account you know has no membership, sign in with your other addresses. That is how Audible says to find a second account.²
3. Cancel in Membership details On a computer: select your name at the top, then Membership details, then Cancel membership, then Confirm cancellation. You should get an email confirming it. If there is no cancel link, you are probably signed in to the wrong account.³ If you pay through an iPhone or Android subscription, cancel it there instead; see APPLE.COM/BILL or GOOGLE *.
4. Spend your credits first Audible says unused credits are lost at the end of your final billing cycle, and that credits expire 12 months after they are issued anyway. Books you already got with credits stay yours.³
5. Ask Audible for the money back Contact the Audible customer service for the country that matches your statement line, with the last four digits of the card ready.¹ Delaware’s records show membership charges refunded in full in the past (see above).
6. If you never signed up and nobody in your household did, go to your bank Tell your card issuer you want to dispute the charge. Bring the statement line exactly as printed, every date and amount, and what you already tried. Ask what its deadline is for disputes; it depends on the bank, the card network and the reason.

Is it a scam?

An AUDIBLE* charge is from Audible itself, which Audible describes as "an Amazon company".¹ The amounts in the public card records are mostly $14.95 or $7.95 a month, a yearly $149.50, and one-off amounts between $0.99 and $150.⁴ If you cannot find it in any account and nobody else uses your card, treat it as unauthorized: call your bank and ask for a new card.

Other Amazon names

Shopping on Amazon is AMAZON MKTPL* or AMZN MKTP US*, also followed by a nine-character code. Prime itself is AMAZON PRIME*. Other names are in the table of statement names.

Sources

1. Audible Help, "Identify unknown charge" ("What's this charge from Audible?" and the table "If your charge comes from…"), the page that adbl.co/bill forwards to. help.audible.com. Read in a browser on 12 October 2026. The web archive’s copies of Audible’s help pages hold only the page frame, not the article, so we do not link one.
2. Audible Help, "Billing issues". help.audible.com. Read in a browser on 12 October 2026.
3. Audible Help, "Cancel membership". help.audible.com. Read in a browser on 12 October 2026.
4. State of Delaware Open Data, State Employee Credit Card Transactions, fields "merchant", "trans_dt", "merchandise_amt" and "dept_name". Lines containing AUDIBLE. Queried and counted on 12 October 2026.
5. South Carolina Comptroller General, State Government Credit Card Usage Report, monthly reports January 2020 to September 2026 (75 reports; those for September 2021 and March to July 2025 could not be downloaded under the usual file name). The line above is in March 2026. Read on 12 October 2026. The reports print card holders’ names; we do not repeat them. Archived copy of March 2026.