What is the most common complaint against Southern Credit Adjusters, Inc.?

The most common issue consumers report about Southern Credit Adjusters, Inc. is "Attempts to collect debt not owed", specifically "Didn't receive enough information to verify debt". This is based on 46 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Southern Credit Adjusters, Inc. increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Southern Credit Adjusters, Inc. are falling. The company received 8 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is Southern Credit Adjusters, Inc.'s reputation grade?

Southern Credit Adjusters, Inc. has a reputation grade of B (score: 62.2/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Southern Credit Adjusters, Inc. respond to consumer complaints?

Southern Credit Adjusters, Inc. has a 100% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 13% of cases.

In how many states does Southern Credit Adjusters, Inc. operate?

Southern Credit Adjusters, Inc. has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 9 states, with the most complaints from North Carolina (26 complaints).

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

Southern Credit Adjusters, Inc. - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 9 states, reputation grade B.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Attempts to collect debt not owed

12
Written notification about debt

10
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed

9
Disclosure verification of debt

5
False statements or representation

4
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

3

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record southern-credit-adjusters-inc Southern Credit Adjusters, Inc.

Grade B · 46 CFPB filings · 100% timely · lead issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed · vol #1260 · compose #2089

VOL 46
GRADE B
12MO 8
STATES 9
TIMELY 100%
DISPUTE 13%
ISSUE Attempts to collect debt n…
RANK #1,260
COMPOSE #2,089

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Armstrong and Associates, Inc (46 complaints)

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

Southern Credit Adjusters, Inc.'s 46 CFPB complaints sit next to Armstrong and Associates, 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

56.5% of Southern Credit Adjusters, Inc.'s CFPB filings land in North Carolina

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Southern Credit Adjusters, Inc. is volume #1,260 but composite #2,089, while North Carolina dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: North Carolina 56.5%; 26 of 46 filings · 9 states touched
Seasonal peak: 2023-10 10.0%; 8–15% band · 3 filings
Divergent corpus ranks: #1,260 volume; #2,089 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 829 places worse than volume

How does Southern Credit Adjusters, Inc. compare to its peers?

How does Southern Credit Adjusters, 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

Southern Credit Adjust… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

100%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

13%

20%

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2018-07 2026-02

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Attempts to collect debt not owed	12
Written notification about debt	10
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed	9
Disclosure verification of debt	5
False statements or representation	4
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	3
Communication tactics	3

Where do complaints against Southern Credit Adjusters, Inc. come from?

Southern Credit Adjusters, Inc.'s own per-state count, not a national baseline.

North Carolina

26
Texas

7
Pennsylvania

5
Louisiana

2
Arizona

1
Colorado

1
Delaware

1
Florida

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Southern Credit Adjusters, 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: 46.

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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