What is the most common complaint against Hawk Inc?

The most common issue consumers report about Hawk Inc is "Attempts to collect debt not owed", specifically "Threatened or suggested your credit would be damaged". This is based on 9 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Hawk Inc increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Hawk Inc are rising. The company received 7 complaints in the last 12 months, indicating an upward trend in consumer issues.

What is Hawk Inc's reputation grade?

Hawk Inc has a reputation grade of B (score: 63.6/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Hawk Inc respond to consumer complaints?

Hawk Inc has a 100% timely response rate to CFPB complaints.

In how many states does Hawk Inc operate?

Hawk Inc has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 2 states, with the most complaints from South Carolina (8 complaints).

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

Hawk Inc - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 2 states, reputation grade B.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Attempts to collect debt not owed

6
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

2
Communication tactics

1

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record hawk-inc Hawk Inc

Grade B · 9 CFPB filings · 100% timely · lead issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed · vol #2608 · compose #1921

VOL 9
GRADE B
12MO 7
STATES 2
TIMELY 100%
ISSUE Attempts to collect debt n…
RANK #2,608
COMPOSE #1,921

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: 1st Results Billings & Collections, Inc. (9 complaints)

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

Hawk Inc's 9 CFPB complaints sit next to 1st Results Billings & Collections, 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

88.9% of Hawk Inc's CFPB filings land in South Carolina

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Hawk Inc is volume #2,608 but composite #1,921, while South Carolina dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: South Carolina 88.9%; 8 of 9 filings · 2 states touched
Spike month: 2016-01 20.0%; 1 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Divergent corpus ranks: #2,608 volume; #1,921 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 687 places better than volume

How does Hawk Inc compare to its peers?

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

Hawk Inc 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)

2016-01 2024-08

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Attempts to collect debt not owed	6
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	2
Communication tactics	1

Where do complaints against Hawk Inc come from?

Hawk Inc's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

South Carolina

8
Georgia

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Hawk Inc: 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: 9.

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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