What is the most common complaint against Professional Debt Mediation, Inc.?

The most common issue consumers report about Professional Debt Mediation, Inc. is "Attempts to collect debt not owed", specifically "Debt is not yours". This is based on 1,707 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Professional Debt Mediation, Inc. increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Professional Debt Mediation, Inc. have been stable. The company received 432 complaints in the last 12 months.

What is Professional Debt Mediation, Inc.'s reputation grade?

Professional Debt Mediation, Inc. has a reputation grade of F (score: 47.4/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Professional Debt Mediation, Inc. respond to consumer complaints?

Professional Debt Mediation, Inc. has a 82% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 18% of cases.

In how many states does Professional Debt Mediation, Inc. operate?

Professional Debt Mediation, Inc. has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 47 states, with the most complaints from Florida (579 complaints).

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

Professional Debt Mediation, Inc. - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 47 states, reputation grade F.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Attempts to collect debt not owed

760
False statements or representation

288
Written notification about debt

270
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

133
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed

92
Communication tactics

73

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record professional-debt-mediation-inc Professional Debt Mediation, Inc.

Grade F · 1,707 CFPB filings · 82% timely · lead issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed · vol #105 · compose #4380

VOL 1,707
GRADE F
12MO 432
STATES 47
TIMELY 82%
DISPUTE 18%
ISSUE Attempts to collect debt n…
RANK #105
COMPOSE #4,380

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Consumer Adjustment Company Incorporated (1,720 complaints)

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

Professional Debt Mediation, Inc.'s 1,707 CFPB complaints sit next to Consumer Adjustment Company Incorporated 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

33.9% of Professional Debt Mediation, Inc.'s CFPB filings land in Florida

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Professional Debt Mediation, Inc. is volume #105 but composite #4,380, while Florida dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: Florida 33.9%; 579 of 1,707 filings · 47 states touched
Seasonal peak: 2023-10 8.6%; 8–15% band · 3 filings
Divergent corpus ranks: #105 volume; #4,380 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 4,275 places worse than volume

How does Professional Debt Mediation, Inc. compare to its peers?

How does Professional Debt Mediation, 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

Professional Debt Medi… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

432

370

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

82%

98%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

18%

13%

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2022-11 2026-02

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Attempts to collect debt not owed	760
False statements or representation	288
Written notification about debt	270
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	133
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed	92
Communication tactics	73
Disclosure verification of debt	56
Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly	15
Improper contact or sharing of info	12
Electronic communications	6

Where do complaints against Professional Debt Mediation, Inc. come from?

Professional Debt Mediation, Inc.'s own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Florida

579
Georgia

330
Texas

241
North Carolina

66
South Carolina

64
Connecticut

35
New York

35
Pennsylvania

31

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Professional Debt Mediation, 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: 1,707.

4 peers

Similar timely response rate

Nearest collectors by CFPB 15-day timely-response %. This record: 82.0952380952381%.

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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