What is the most common complaint against Fuel Capital Group?

The most common issue consumers report about Fuel Capital Group is "Took or threatened to take negative or legal action", specifically "Threatened or suggested your credit would be damaged". This is based on 34 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Fuel Capital Group increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Fuel Capital Group are rising. The company received 28 complaints in the last 12 months, indicating an upward trend in consumer issues.

What is Fuel Capital Group's reputation grade?

Fuel Capital Group has a reputation grade of D (score: 55.3/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Fuel Capital Group respond to consumer complaints?

Fuel Capital Group has a 100% timely response rate to CFPB complaints.

In how many states does Fuel Capital Group operate?

Fuel Capital Group has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 9 states, with the most complaints from North Carolina (15 complaints).

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

Fuel Capital Group - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 9 states, reputation grade D.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

25
False statements or representation

3
Attempts to collect debt not owed

2
Communication tactics

2
Written notification about debt

1
Electronic communications

1

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record fuel-capital-group Fuel Capital Group

Grade D · 34 CFPB filings · 100% timely · lead issue: Took or threatened to take negative or legal action · vol #1450 · compose #3284

VOL 34
GRADE D
12MO 28
STATES 9
TIMELY 100%
ISSUE Took or threatened to take…
RANK #1,450
COMPOSE #3,284

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Alliance Group & Associates LLC (34 complaints)

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

Fuel Capital Group's 34 CFPB complaints sit next to Alliance Group & Associates LLC 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

44.1% of Fuel Capital Group's CFPB filings land in North Carolina

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Fuel Capital Group is volume #1,450 but composite #3,284, while North Carolina dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: North Carolina 44.1%; 15 of 34 filings · 9 states touched
Seasonal peak: 2017-02 14.3%; 8–15% band · 4 filings
Divergent corpus ranks: #1,450 volume; #3,284 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 1,834 places worse than volume

How does Fuel Capital Group compare to its peers?

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

Fuel Capital Group National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

100%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2016-10 2026-01

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	25
False statements or representation	3
Attempts to collect debt not owed	2
Communication tactics	2
Written notification about debt	1
Electronic communications	1

Where do complaints against Fuel Capital Group come from?

Fuel Capital Group's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

North Carolina

15
California

10
Arizona

2
Texas

2
Florida

1
Georgia

1
Illinois

1
Pennsylvania

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Fuel Capital Group: 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: 34.

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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