What is the most common complaint against Professional Collection Service Inc (GA)?

The most common issue consumers report about Professional Collection Service Inc (GA) is "Attempts to collect debt not owed", specifically "Debt is not yours". This is based on 74 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Professional Collection Service Inc (GA) increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Professional Collection Service Inc (GA) are rising. The company received 22 complaints in the last 12 months, indicating an upward trend in consumer issues.

What is Professional Collection Service Inc (GA)'s reputation grade?

Professional Collection Service Inc (GA) has a reputation grade of B (score: 62.0/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Professional Collection Service Inc (GA) respond to consumer complaints?

Professional Collection Service Inc (GA) has a 92% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 0% of cases.

In how many states does Professional Collection Service Inc (GA) operate?

Professional Collection Service Inc (GA) has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 9 states, with the most complaints from Georgia (46 complaints).

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

Professional Collection Service Inc (GA) - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 9 states, reputation grade B.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Attempts to collect debt not owed

35
Written notification about debt

14
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

11
False statements or representation

8
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed

2
Disclosure verification of debt

2

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record professional-collection-service-inc-ga Professional Collection Service Inc (GA)

Grade B · 74 CFPB filings · 92% timely · lead issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed · vol #973 · compose #2102

VOL 74
GRADE B
12MO 22
STATES 9
TIMELY 92%
DISPUTE 0%
ISSUE Attempts to collect debt n…
RANK #973
COMPOSE #2,102

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Brennan & Clark, Ltd., LLC (74 complaints)

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

Professional Collection Service Inc (GA)'s 74 CFPB complaints sit next to Brennan & Clark, Ltd., 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

62.2% of Professional Collection Service Inc (GA)'s CFPB filings land in Georgia

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Professional Collection Service Inc (GA) is volume #973 but composite #2,102, while Georgia dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: Georgia 62.2%; 46 of 74 filings · 9 states touched
Seasonal peak: 2020-08 11.9%; 8–15% band · 5 filings
Divergent corpus ranks: #973 volume; #2,102 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 1,129 places worse than volume

How does Professional Collection Service Inc (GA) compare to its peers?

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

Professional Collectio… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

92%

69%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

40%

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2019-07 2022-01

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Attempts to collect debt not owed	35
Written notification about debt	14
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	11
False statements or representation	8
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed	2
Disclosure verification of debt	2
Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly	2

Where do complaints against Professional Collection Service Inc (GA) come from?

Professional Collection Service Inc (GA)'s own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Georgia

46
Alabama

17
Mississippi

4
California

1
Florida

1
Indiana

1
Nevada

1
New Jersey

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Professional Collection Service Inc (GA): 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: 74.

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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