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Share of complaints that ended with money back
0.62%
Of the 160 complaints recorded against Ad Astra Recovery Services in the CFPB database, 1 were closed with monetary relief. Read this as one figure from a public dataset, not a grade: it is not adjusted for how many customers or loans a company has, its product mix, complaint severity, or how each firm classifies its responses — so it should not be read as this lender treating people better or worse than another.
Issue categories as selected by borrowers on the CFPB complaint form.
| Issue | Complaints | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Received a loan I didn't apply for | 43 | 26.9% |
| Incorrect information on your report | 24 | 15.0% |
| Can't contact lender | 18 | 11.2% |
| Charged fees or interest you didn't expect | 17 | 10.6% |
| Problem with a credit reporting company's investigation into an existing problem | 10 | 6.2% |
| Problem with the payoff process at the end of the loan | 9 | 5.6% |
The outcome the CFPB recorded for each complaint after the company responded.
| Outcome | Complaints | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Closed with explanation The company stated its position; nothing changed for the borrower. | 159 | 99.4% |
| Closed with monetary relief Money was returned. | 1 | 0.6% |
You can withdraw permission for any company to debit your account, and instruct your bank to block the payment. Neither step needs the lender’s agreement, and neither depends on whether you still owe the money.
Top states by complaint volume. Each links to that state’s law page.
| State | Complaints |
|---|---|
| Texas | 72 |
| California | 24 |
| Louisiana | 8 |
| Alabama | 6 |
| Arizona | 6 |
| Tennessee | 6 |
| Colorado | 5 |
| Nevada | 5 |
Verbatim from complaints filed against Ad Astra Recovery Services in the CFPB database. XX and XXXX are the Bureau’s own redactions of personal details. These are allegations by borrowers, published by the CFPB — not findings, and not necessarily accepted by the company.
I received information from you attempting to collect the above-listed alleged debt. Your initial communication to me of the alleged-debt was within 30 days ago. Please be further advised, I dispute the validity of the alleged debt in its entirety. Further I request verification of the alleged debt, including, the name and address of the…Problem with a credit reporting company's investigation into an existing problem · complaint filed 2020-09-05
I was notified of this account when it showed up on my credit report over a year ago from a collection agency called Ad Astra XXXX located in Kansas. It states I owe {$5700.00}, I had no idea what this was as I never received anything from Ad Astra but they have been reporting this on my credit report for over a year which lowered my…Problem when making payments · complaint filed 2020-08-26
i disputed this debt with the credit bureaus and it came back verified i have since then contacted the company and haven't received a response. Where are the documents that your company used to verify that you are reporting these accounts accurately? What is the name of the person in your company who verified the accuracy of this…Incorrect information on your report · complaint filed 2020-08-01
More complaints does not mean worse. A company serving millions of borrowers will collect more complaints than one serving thousands, whatever the quality of either. That is why the headline figure is a rate — the share of complaints that end with money back — not a count. The rate already adjusts for how many people complained.
A complaint is also an allegation, not a finding. The CFPB does not verify what borrowers write, and neither do we.
The complaint counts, resolution outcomes, issue and state breakdowns on this page come straight from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database (a public federal dataset of 15,188,499 complaints filed since 2011; retrieved 3 August 2026) and refresh from that API — no editorial judgement is applied to those numbers. The regulatory-action, rent-a-bank and SEC-filing sections, the lender’s classification and description, and the company-name matching are researched and reviewed by hand, and dated where shown.
Complaints are published after the company responds or after 15 days, whichever comes first. The CFPB does not verify borrowers’ accounts, and a complaint is not a finding of wrongdoing. The database is not a statistical sample of all customer experience. Search the full database →
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