A woman from Indiana is searching for her doppelgänger after a facial recognition program flagged her while she was renewing her driver's license. Erika Brown from Anderson said she was renewing her license at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles when the program indicated possible fraud. She was contacted by an investigator from the Fraud and Security Enforcement unit, who requested proof of her identity before issuing her new license.
The officer showed Brown two side-by-side photos: her license photo and that of another woman from Indiana, who is the same age but has a different name and address. Brown said the resemblance was uncanny. "What are the chances that we look so similar, live in the same place, and have never met? I'm an only child, so no one really looks like me. Seeing someone who looks so much like me was really strange and weird. No one had ever told me, 'You look like so-and-so,'" she said.
Brown's new driver's license was finally issued after three months, but now she is trying to find her doppelgänger by posting a new video on TikTok with a daily update on her search. "I want to meet her, be in the same room, and know who she is. Does she have a family? What do her parents look like? How does something like this happen genetically?" Brown said.