Click Profit: the $5 million supercomputer
A business-opportunity operation sold AI-powered Amazon store automation, claiming among other things a five-million-dollar supercomputer that picked winning products, plus partnerships it did not have. Consumers lost at least $14 million. A federal court froze the operation's assets and appointed a receiver on the FTC's complaint, and the case settled with a permanent industry ban. The AI was the marketing.
What the verified record says.
- Organizations
- Click Profit LLC; US Federal Trade Commission
- When
- March 2025Resolved August 2025
- Failure class
- False claims about the AI false-ai-claims
- Discovered by
- The harm itself, after the fact harm-itself Not caught by the organization running the AI
- Missing control
- Honest claims. The control here is not technical. Full definition and the other incidents in this group → Watch this kind of control catch a planted failure →
- What would have caught it
- Evidence that the AI exists and does what the pitch says, produced before any customer's money changes hands.
- Sources
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- FTC primary
- Verification
- Confirmed: the claims held as first researched. The FTC does not name its tip-off source. The March 2025 action obtained a temporary restraining order, an asset freeze and a receiver, and the case settled in August 2025. Verified against the primary source on August 12, 2026. Published on this site August 13, 2026, updated September 1, 2026.
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