WARNING TO NATIONAL DIRECTORS & CONTESTANTS!!! BEWARE OF THIS GUY "ROMULO (MARK) ANCHETA". HE'S A SCUMBAG! HE'S A PROFESSIONAL SCAM ARTIST AND WAS ARRESTED IN 2008 BY PHILIPPINE AUTHORITIES FOR DECEIVING DIRECTORS AND CONTESTANTS AND RUNNING AWAY WITH THEIR MONEY!
From Critical Beauty (2/6/2011):
• HE'S BAAAAAACK! A CB reader informed me that Mark Ancheta (a/k/a Romulo Ancheta), the Filipino organizer of the revived Miss Young International pageant, is back in the pageantry circuit and is soliciting candidates for the 2011 edition of his pageant. As many of you know, Ancheta was arrested in December 2008 by Philippine authorities who had charged him for fraud. Ancheta has victimized many naive and gullible individuals (to see his track record, all you have to do is search "Mark Ancheta" in the Critical Beauty Google Search Engine and all references to his misdeeds will come up.) It's amazing how this lowlife is still being allowed to run his pageant; but it's even more amazing how gullible individuals continue to fall for his scam.
It's obvious the guy is desperately seeking sponsors and financial backers. He has changed his website host and design many times, and the current one is run by Webstarts, a free provider. The text on the site is painful to read; it is riddled with misspellings, faulty syntax, poor or wrong choice of words, dangling modifiers, and inconsistent subject/verb agreement.
In the Delegates section, notice the misspelling of countries and absence of information on each delegate. His pageant's mission is also suspect. In the History section, he writes: "The winner of this title will embark her year reign in visiting different charity organization worldwide, especially the poorest country wherein poverty and lack of education is very rampant. As Ambassadress of beauty with a purpose, the winner uses her title to help different charity organizations for children. The scope of providing them the best education, personal and physical awareness and services that will make them realized that there is still hope for this world." Notice how he borrows (steals?) Miss World's trademarked slogan, "Beauty With A Purpose." As far as visiting different charity organizations worldwide, we still have to see pictures or videos from charity events attended by his past or current titleholders.
And it seems that he is also venturing out to male pageantry: Mister Tourism International!
By the way, Ancheta is also on Facebook (and why wouldn't he be? LOL)