Click Profit, LLC

What is alleged

In March 2025 the FTC filed a complaint and obtained a temporary restraining order against four individuals and their eight corporations doing business as Click Profit.

The FTC alleged they promised to create and operate stores for buyers on Amazon and other e-commerce platforms that would generate hundreds of thousands, and even millions, of dollars in guaranteed “passive income”. The marketing centred on a proprietary system said to be powered by an “AI supercomputer”.

According to the FTC, most buyers earned little or nothing despite spending tens of thousands of dollars. The complaint puts the cost to consumers at at least $14 million.

A federal court halted the scheme, placed the business under a receiver, and later granted a preliminary injunction.

Who was named

Individuals: Craig Emslie, Patrick McGeoghean, William Holton, and Jason Masri.

Corporations: Click Profit LLC, SA Automation Enterprise LLC, M23 Holdings LLC, M7 Investments LLC, Express Ecom LLC, Ecom Direct LLC, Automation Industries LLC, and Click Profit Distribution LLC.

Eight corporate entities for a single offer is worth noting on its own. It makes an operation hard to research before buying, hard to sue afterwards, and simple to continue under a name with no history attached.

Outcome

In August 2025 the proposed stipulated orders permanently banned every defendant from:

• any involvement in the sale, marketing, or operation of any business opportunity;
• making false claims about potential earnings, affiliation with other businesses, and use of artificial intelligence; and
• restricting buyers from reviewing or sharing truthful information about the defendants and their practices.

Monetary judgments: $13.6 million against Emslie, McGeoghean, Holton and their affiliated entities, and $7.3 million against Masri and his affiliated entities. Cash, real estate, and personal property are to be turned over for consumer redress.

Context

This entry sits in a cluster. The FTC brought materially similar actions against Ascend CapVentures, Ecommerce Empire Builders, and FBA Machine over the same period, all involving AI-powered online storefronts sold on passive income claims. Two of those are recorded separately here. The repetition across otherwise unconnected operators is itself the signal worth acting on.

Note also that the orders expressly bar false claims about the use of artificial intelligence, which is the FTC treating an AI capability claim as a distinct thing to be policed rather than as marketing colour.

What is not established

Allegations in a complaint are the government’s case, not findings of fact, and a settlement resolves them without admission of wrongdoing.

We have not yet contacted the named parties for comment. When we do, the attempt and any response will appear on this entry.