What is the most common complaint against Worldwide Recovery LLC?

The most common issue consumers report about Worldwide Recovery LLC is "Took or threatened to take negative or legal action", specifically "Threatened to arrest you or take you to jail if you do not pay". This is based on 16 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Worldwide Recovery LLC increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Worldwide Recovery LLC are falling. The company received 0 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is Worldwide Recovery LLC's reputation grade?

Worldwide Recovery LLC has a reputation grade of F (score: 37.9/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Worldwide Recovery LLC respond to consumer complaints?

Worldwide Recovery LLC has a 6% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 0% of cases.

In how many states does Worldwide Recovery LLC operate?

Worldwide Recovery LLC has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 7 states, with the most complaints from California (6 complaints).

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

Worldwide Recovery LLC - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 7 states, reputation grade F.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

4
Taking/threatening an illegal action

4
False statements or representation

3
Communication tactics

3
Written notification about debt

1
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed

1

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record worldwide-recovery-llc Worldwide Recovery LLC

Grade F · 16 CFPB filings · 6% timely · lead issue: Took or threatened to take negative or legal action · vol #2115 · compose #5029

VOL 16
GRADE F
12MO 0
STATES 7
TIMELY 6%
DISPUTE 0%
ISSUE Took or threatened to take…
RANK #2,115
COMPOSE #5,029

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Absolute Collections Corp. (16 complaints)

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

Worldwide Recovery LLC's 16 CFPB complaints sit next to Absolute Collections Corp. 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

37.5% of Worldwide Recovery LLC's CFPB filings land in California

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Worldwide Recovery LLC is volume #2,115 but composite #5,029, while California dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: California 37.5%; 6 of 16 filings · 7 states touched
Seasonal peak: 2021-04 14.3%; 8–15% band · 2 filings
Divergent corpus ranks: #2,115 volume; #5,029 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 2,914 places worse than volume

How does Worldwide Recovery LLC compare to its peers?

How does Worldwide Recovery 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

Worldwide Recovery LLC National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2019-05 2026-02

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	4
Taking/threatening an illegal action	4
False statements or representation	3
Communication tactics	3
Written notification about debt	1
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed	1

Where do complaints against Worldwide Recovery LLC come from?

Worldwide Recovery LLC's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

California

6
Oklahoma

2
South Dakota

2
Maryland

1
Oregon

1
Texas

1
Washington

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Worldwide Recovery 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: 16.

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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