What is the most common complaint against Ameritan Group Services?

The most common issue consumers report about Ameritan Group Services is "Took or threatened to take negative or legal action", specifically "Talked to a third-party about your debt". This is based on 16 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Ameritan Group Services increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Ameritan Group Services are rising. The company received 11 complaints in the last 12 months, indicating an upward trend in consumer issues.

What is Ameritan Group Services's reputation grade?

Ameritan Group Services has a reputation grade of F (score: 24.3/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Ameritan Group Services respond to consumer complaints?

Ameritan Group Services has a 0% timely response rate to CFPB complaints.

In how many states does Ameritan Group Services operate?

Ameritan Group Services has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 9 states, with the most complaints from Texas (5 complaints).

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

Ameritan Group Services - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 9 states, reputation grade F.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

6
Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly

5
Communication tactics

4
False statements or representation

1

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record ameritan-group-services Ameritan Group Services

Grade F · 16 CFPB filings · 0% timely · lead issue: Took or threatened to take negative or legal action · vol #2065 · compose #5256

VOL 16
GRADE F
12MO 11
STATES 9
TIMELY 0%
ISSUE Took or threatened to take…
RANK #2,065
COMPOSE #5,256

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Absolute Collections Corp. (16 complaints)

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

Ameritan Group Services's 16 CFPB complaints sit next to Absolute Collections Corp. 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

31.3% of Ameritan Group Services's CFPB filings land in Texas

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Ameritan Group Services is volume #2,065 but composite #5,256, while Texas dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: Texas 31.3%; 5 of 16 filings · 9 states touched
Spike month: 2023-12 66.7%; 2 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Divergent corpus ranks: #2,065 volume; #5,256 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 3,191 places worse than volume

How does Ameritan Group Services compare to its peers?

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

Ameritan Group Service… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

100%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

50%

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2021-09 2023-12

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	6
Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly	5
Communication tactics	4
False statements or representation	1

Where do complaints against Ameritan Group Services come from?

Ameritan Group Services's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Texas

5
California

3
Arizona

2
Florida

1
Illinois

1
Iowa

1
Nevada

1
Ohio

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Ameritan Group Services: 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: 16.

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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