What is the most common complaint against Professional Collectors Corp.?

The most common issue consumers report about Professional Collectors Corp. is "Attempts to collect debt not owed", specifically "Debt is not yours". This is based on 82 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Professional Collectors Corp. increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Professional Collectors Corp. are rising. The company received 31 complaints in the last 12 months, indicating an upward trend in consumer issues.

What is Professional Collectors Corp.'s reputation grade?

Professional Collectors Corp. has a reputation grade of D (score: 51.6/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Professional Collectors Corp. respond to consumer complaints?

Professional Collectors Corp. has a 100% timely response rate to CFPB complaints.

In how many states does Professional Collectors Corp. operate?

Professional Collectors Corp. has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 12 states, with the most complaints from Wisconsin (66 complaints).

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

Professional Collectors Corp. - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 12 states, reputation grade D.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Attempts to collect debt not owed

33
Written notification about debt

16
False statements or representation

14
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

8
Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly

5
Communication tactics

3

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record professional-collectors-corp Professional Collectors Corp.

Grade D · 82 CFPB filings · 100% timely · lead issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed · vol #917 · compose #3940

VOL 82
GRADE D
12MO 31
STATES 12
TIMELY 100%
ISSUE Attempts to collect debt n…
RANK #917
COMPOSE #3,940

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Recovery Management Solutions LLC (82 complaints)

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

Professional Collectors Corp.'s 82 CFPB complaints sit next to Recovery Management Solutions 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

80.5% of Professional Collectors Corp.'s CFPB filings land in Wisconsin

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Professional Collectors Corp. is volume #917 but composite #3,940, while Wisconsin dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: Wisconsin 80.5%; 66 of 82 filings · 12 states touched
Seasonal peak: 2025-10 10.8%; 8–15% band · 21 filings
Divergent corpus ranks: #917 volume; #3,940 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 3,023 places worse than volume

How does Professional Collectors Corp. compare to its peers?

How does Professional Collectors Corp. 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 Collector… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

100%

99%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

100%

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2024-04 2026-03

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Attempts to collect debt not owed	33
Written notification about debt	16
False statements or representation	14
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	8
Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly	5
Communication tactics	3
Electronic communications	3

Where do complaints against Professional Collectors Corp. come from?

Professional Collectors Corp.'s own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Wisconsin

66
Illinois

5
Georgia

2
Alabama

1
California

1
Indiana

1
Iowa

1
Kentucky

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Professional Collectors Corp.: 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: 82.

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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