A bankruptcy lawyer from Indiana who shares a name with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke out about the challenges he faces and explained why he filed a lawsuit against the tech company on Tuesday after Facebook accused him of impersonation.
“I’m Mark Steven. And he’s Mark Elliot,” the Indiana lawyer told local news outlet 13WTHR on Wednesday, referring to their respective middle names.
The lawyer, Mark S. Zuckerberg, has a website, iammarkzuckerberg.com, where he details the “interesting things” that have happened to him because of his name — including receiving over 100 friend requests daily from people confusing him with the CEO, as well as receiving packages, letters, complaints, suggestions and demands on how to “improve Facebook.”
“I can’t use my name when making reservations or conducting business as people assume I’m a prank caller and hang up,” the attorney wrote on his website.
The less-famous Zuckerberg went on to say that he has received “Venmo payment requests and money solicitations from total strangers” as well as from “relatives” who reached out to him.
