What is the most common complaint against American Professional Collections?

The most common issue consumers report about American Professional Collections is "False statements or representation", specifically "Contacted me after I asked not to". This is based on 3 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against American Professional Collections increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against American Professional Collections are falling. The company received 0 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is American Professional Collections's reputation grade?

American Professional Collections has a reputation grade of B (score: 71.6/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does American Professional Collections respond to consumer complaints?

American Professional Collections has a 67% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 0% of cases.

In how many states does American Professional Collections operate?

American Professional Collections has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 1 states, with the most complaints from California (3 complaints).

This data comes from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database and reflects consumer complaints, not proven violations.

American Professional Collections - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 1 states, reputation grade B.

Compiled by PlainCollector

False statements or representation

1
Disclosure verification of debt

1
Improper contact or sharing of info

1

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record american-professional-collections American Professional Collections

Grade B · 3 CFPB filings · 67% timely · lead issue: False statements or representation · vol #3564 · compose #1168

VOL 3
GRADE B
12MO 0
STATES 1
TIMELY 67%
DISPUTE 0%
ISSUE False statements or repres…
RANK #3,564
COMPOSE #1,168

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: 950 Credit Inc (3 complaints)

CFPB complaint volume neighbourhood (this collector + nearest volume peers)

American Professional Collections's 3 CFPB complaints sit next to 950 Credit Inc on the volume neighbourhood; peer NAMES stay, and disposition VALUES are this collector's. Grades compare collectors to each other - a complaint is a filing, not a proven violation. How to read a complaint count →

State-heavy filing map

100.0% of American Professional Collections's CFPB filings land in California

High volume does not equal a clean composite: American Professional Collections is volume #3,564 but composite #1,168, while California dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: California 100.0%; 3 of 3 filings · 1 states touched
Spike month: 2025-01 25.0%; 1 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Divergent corpus ranks: #3,564 volume; #1,168 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 2,396 places better than volume

How does American Professional Collections compare to its peers?

How does American Professional Collections compare? Versus a similar-volume peer and the national average (collectors with ≥50 total complaints), drawn from 10 collectors with a comparable complaint count

American Professional … National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

67%

100%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2025-01 2025-11

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
False statements or representation	1
Disclosure verification of debt	1
Improper contact or sharing of info	1

Where do complaints against American Professional Collections come from?

American Professional Collections's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

California

3

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for American Professional Collections: nearest all-time CFPB complaint volume and nearest CFPB timely-response rate among collectors with at least 100 logged complaints. State breakdowns above stay geographic; these neighborhoods vary by metric.

Similar filing volume

Nearest collectors by total CFPB complaints. This record: 3.

4 peers

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Data sourced from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainCollector

According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Consumer Complaint Database, 1,139,236 debt collection complaints are represented in the current PlainCollector snapshot. See our methodology for how PlainCollector computes each company's reputation grade from this data.

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