What is the most common complaint against Markoff Law LLC?

The most common issue consumers report about Markoff Law LLC is "Took or threatened to take negative or legal action", specifically "Sued you without properly notifying you of lawsuit". This is based on 49 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Markoff Law LLC increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Markoff Law LLC are falling. The company received 5 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is Markoff Law LLC's reputation grade?

Markoff Law LLC has a reputation grade of B (score: 64.5/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Markoff Law LLC respond to consumer complaints?

Markoff Law LLC has a 98% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 0% of cases.

In how many states does Markoff Law LLC operate?

Markoff Law LLC has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 9 states, with the most complaints from Illinois (21 complaints).

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

Markoff Law LLC - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 9 states, reputation grade B.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

21
Attempts to collect debt not owed

12
False statements or representation

7
Written notification about debt

3
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed

3
Taking/threatening an illegal action

2

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record markoff-law-llc Markoff Law LLC

Grade B · 49 CFPB filings · 98% timely · lead issue: Took or threatened to take negative or legal action · vol #1206 · compose #1822

VOL 49
GRADE B
12MO 5
STATES 9
TIMELY 98%
DISPUTE 0%
ISSUE Took or threatened to take…
RANK #1,206
COMPOSE #1,822

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Account Recovery Specialists, Inc. (49 complaints)

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

Markoff Law LLC's 49 CFPB complaints sit next to Account Recovery Specialists, 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

42.9% of Markoff Law LLC's CFPB filings land in Illinois

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Markoff Law LLC is volume #1,206 but composite #1,822, while Illinois dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: Illinois 42.9%; 21 of 49 filings · 9 states touched
Seasonal peak: 2016-04 8.3%; 8–15% band · 3 filings
Divergent corpus ranks: #1,206 volume; #1,822 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 616 places worse than volume

How does Markoff Law LLC compare to its peers?

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

Markoff Law LLC National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

98%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

20%

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2015-12 2021-06

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	21
Attempts to collect debt not owed	12
False statements or representation	7
Written notification about debt	3
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed	3
Taking/threatening an illegal action	2
Communication tactics	1

Where do complaints against Markoff Law LLC come from?

Markoff Law LLC's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Illinois

21
Michigan

7
Ohio

7
Indiana

4
Wisconsin

3
Kentucky

2
Louisiana

2
Mississippi

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Markoff Law LLC: 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: 49.

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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