There are very few certainties in life, but here’s one: if an investment group is trying to pitch 32% returns on your money, and using Jeff Blake, Ty and Koy Detmer, and Chris Weinke to woo you, don’t just turn them down, but please, run in the other direction. Run for your life.
Ty Detmer Wants To Make You Rich!
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The company is called Triton Financial, and they are currently engulfed in an SEC investigation. Sports Illustrated reports on the veritable who’s who of D-list sports celebrities that were involved in the caper (or scammed themselves):
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↵Former employees include Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Ty Detmer, a longtime friend of Barton and the former "senior vice president of athlete services"; [Jeff] Blake, a former "director of athlete services"; free-agent NFL quarterback Koy Detmer, Ty’s brother; former University of Texas quarterback Chance Mock, who left at the start of the year; and Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Chris Weinke, who was promoted to Ty Detmer’s position after Detmer’s departure this fall but then also left in the following weeks.
↵A series of testimonials starring Heisman-winning running back Tony Dorsett has also been removed from Triton’s Web site. Triton’s general counsel and chief compliance officer, David Tuckfield, also left the company in recent months.
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↵Does the Triton braintrust just not watch pro football? It seems like they went blindly down the list and just hired former Heisman winners. But I think I speak for everyone: the words “Chris Weinke,” don’t really make me think “return on my investment.” Although to be fair, they did avoid any relationship with Eric Crouch.
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The greatest nugget out of this story? Jeff Blake was e-mailing NFL players with an opportunity at 32% investment returns. How can I get on THAT mailing list? If we’re to be bombarded by spam e-mails, at least make ‘em interesting. Forget helping some fake church in Nigeria, Jeff Blake’s handing off an offer you can’t refuse!
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