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Boy, nothing can bring folks to anger faster than the talk of child support. Well, this story has a twist. It's actually a problem that is bringing estranged parents together.

The state's Office of Child Support Services has issued a "scam alert" against a private company collecting child support for custodial parents.

A state spokesman says that Child Support Services of Atlanta, which also goes by Child Support Services of Georgia, deliberately leads parents to believe it's a government agency that collects child support when in fact it's a private agency out to make a profit.

Our I-Team investigation finds just what the state did: the company takes a 35 percent cut of the child's check; the checks are sometimes partial or they don't come at all; non-custodial parents are issued "bogus" letters that look like warrants pressuring them to sign up with the collections agency.

Check out our story online. We try to talk to the South Georgia company that has already been kicked out of Florida for its business practices. Right now they are under investigation by the Georgia Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs.

Here's a look at the scam alert:
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