Marcus Williamson is a British writer, journalist, and campaigner. As an obituarist, he has writtenobituaries of more than 400 subjects, including artists, poets, musicians, actors and inventors forThe Independent,The Guardian,The Scotsman andJewish Chronicle .[1]
In 2009, theAIM-listed (since delisted and failed) spyware companyPhorm created a website Stopphoulplay.com to attack Williamson and fellow campaignerAlexander Hanff. The company accused Williamson of '...waging a "serial letter writing" campaign to Phorm's potential customers and partners in attempt to discredit the company and Mr Ertugrul.'[2] The site was soon taken down and later described as a "PR disaster".[3]
He is the editor of the consumer information website CEOemail.com, which provides the email addresses of many company CEOs. The website is free for non-professional users, with a fee for business users for each email address provided.
In 2010, he revealed that the CEO of theNationwide Building Society had closed down his email address, rather than face emails from upset customers.[4]
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